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Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

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Dr. Paspates (pp. 208, 209) considered the land wall of the Seraglio
  enclosure to be the work of Michael Palæologus. His argument for the
  opinion that the Seraglio grounds were enclosed by walls before the
  Turkish Conquest, and formed, after 1261, part of the domain attached
  to the palace of the Byzantine emperors, is the statement of
  Cantacuzene (iii. pp. 47, 66) that the Church of St. Demetrius stood
  within the palace (τῶν βασιλείων ἐντὸς). That church Dr. Paspates
  identified with the Church of St. Demetrius, near the Seraglio Point;
  hence his conclusion that the territory about that point was included
  in the grounds of the Byzantine palace. But Dr. Paspates must have
  forgotten, for a moment, that the Church of St. Demetrius, which
  formed the chapel of the emperors, was not near the Seraglio Point,
  but near the Pharos and the Chrysotriclinium of the Great Palace,
  buildings placed by Dr. Paspates himself at Domus-Dama, a short
  distance to the east of the Hippodrome, and to the west of the
  Seraglio enclosure. See his work on the Great Palace, Βυζαντινὰ
  Ἀνάκτορα, p. 183. There is an English translation of this work by Mr.
  Metcalfe.

Footnote 643:

  From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.)

Footnote 644:

  Nicephorus Greg., vii. p. 275; Nicephorus Callistus, in the Dedication
  of his _History_ to Andronicus II.

Footnote 645:

  Nicephorus Greg., ix. p. 460.

Footnote 646:

  Cantacuzene, iv. p. 70; Nicephorus Greg., xvii. chaps. i.-vii.

Footnote 647:

  Cantacuzene, iv. pp. 212, 213; Nicephorus Greg., xxvi. pp. 83, 84.

Footnote 648:

  From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.)
  The bas-relief has been removed to the Imperial Museum.

Footnote 649:

  See below, p. 209.

Footnote 650:

  Cantacuzene, iii. p. 585; iv. p. 196. See _Proceedings of Greek
  Literary Syllogos of Consple._, 1885; _Archæological Supplement_, pp.
  37, 38.

Footnote 651:

  Chalcocondylas, pp. 285, 286.

Footnote 652:

  The father of Dr. Mordtmann, whose work on the topography of the city
  has been so often cited.

Footnote 653:

  _Belagerung und Eroberung Constantinopels durch die Türken in Jahre_
  1453, note 27, p. 132; Stuttgart, J. G., _Cottascher Verlag_.

Footnote 654:

  Ducas, pp. 196, 275; cf. Phrantzes, p. 118.

Footnote 655:

  Ducas, pp. 93, 94. See Schlumberger, _Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixième
  Siècle_, pp. 48, 49, for an account of the interpreters attached to
  the Varangian Guard. Ville-Hardouin (c. 39) speaks of the dragoman who
  assisted Isaac Angelus in the negotiations with the envoys of the
  Crusaders in 1203: “Et il (the emperor) se leva, et entra en une
  chambre; et n’emmena avec lui que l’impératrice, et son chancelier, et
  son drogman, et les quatre messagers” (of the Crusaders).

Footnote 656:

  See above, p. 107.




                              CHAPTER XIV.
                    THE WALLS ALONG THE GOLDEN HORN.