[383] For distances between cities in the Balkan peninsula, see Jireček’s important and interesting work, _Die Heerstrasse von Belgrad nach Konstantinopel und die Balkanpässe_, p. 122. Jireček, for time of transit, depends upon Hadji Khalfa. [384] Text in Sauli, ii. 260-8. [385] _armiratus_ or _amiratus_, then _amiralus_, of which we have made admiral, originally had nothing whatever to do with the sea. It is a corruption of _emir_. [386] ‘Magnificus et potens dominus, dominus Moratibei, magnus armiratus et dominus armiratorum Turchie’: the whole text is reproduced from the Genoese archives by Belgrano, in _Atti della Società Ligure di Storia_, xiii. 146-9, and by Silvestre de Sacy, in _Notices et Extraits_, xi. 58-61. Cf. Canale, ii. 59. [387] ‘Contra illum Turcum filium iniquitatis et nequiciae, ac Sancte Crucis inimicum, Moratum bey et eius sectam, cristianum genus sic graviter invadere conantes.’ The text of this treaty is also in Belgrano, ibid., xiii. 953-65. [388] Text in Romanin, iii. 386-9. There was an earlier law of similar nature enacted in 1334. [389] Cf. Delaville Leroulx, i. 159-60. [390] Romanin, iii. 331. [391] _Bullarum_, III, part 2, pp. 4, 92, 338; Urban V, _Epp. secr._ iii. 25, iv. 256; Gregory XI, _Epp. secr._ ii. 32-3, v. 88-9, 311; Philippe de Mézeray, p. 19; Raynaldus, ann. 1372, XXIX. In 1425 Martin V repeated the anathema against those who sold Christian slaves to the Turks: _Bullarum_, III, part 2, p. 454. [392] MS., Bibl. de Bâle, A 1, 28, fols. 232-54, cited by Delaville Leroulx, i. 70, n. 2. Adam’s project was a revival of Sanudo’s attempt to ruin Moslem trading. [393] _Monumenta historiae patriae_, i. 320; iii. 336, 371. [394] In 1432 Bertrandon de la Broquière met at Damascus one of these Genoese of Kaffa, who sold slaves to the Sultan of Egypt: _Voyage_, Schéfer ed., p. 68. [395] Chalc., I, p. 53; Phr., I. 26, p. 81. Cf. Hertzberg, p. 503. [396] Seadeddin, i. 130-2, draws here upon Idris and Neshri, and has been followed by all the Ottoman historians down to the present day. [397] Col. Djevad, pp. 62-3. He speaks of Alaeddin bey ‘ayant levé l’étendard de la révolte’, and calls the punishment of the Serbians in this campaign the chief cause of Kossova. [398] Chalc., I, p. 53; Phr., I. 26, p. 81. [399] Up to 1383, in outlining the career of Tvrtko, I have followed Klaić, pp. 201-3. [400] Schaffarik, _Acta archivii Veneti_, &c., CXLI. [401] In a letter of April 1, published in Ljubić, iv. 185-6. [402] _Misti_, xxxix. 113. [403] Klaić, p. 237; Jireček, p. 341. But von Kállay, i. 166, attributes this victory to George Kastriota of Albania. [404] Orbini, p. 361. [405] Hopf, in Ersch-Gruber, _Allgemeine Encycl._, lxxxvi. 49. [406] _Chronique de Morée_, p. 516. Evrenos is called Branezis. This is not the Evrenos heretofore mentioned, but another Christian renegade, of Macedonia. Cf. Finlay, iv. 233 _n._ [407] Jireček, _Die Heerstrasse_, &c., p. 147.