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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On the subject of the Italian and other foreign colonies settled in
Byzantine Constantinople, the reader may consult Paspates, pp.
127-276; Mordtmann, pp. 46-50; Desmoni, _Giornale Ligustico_, vol. i.;
_Sui Quartieri dei Genovesi a Constantinopoli nel Secolo XII._; Heyd,
_Histoire du Commerce du Levant_; Sauli, _Della Colonia del Genovesi
in Galata_; Pears, _Fall of Constantinople_, c. 6; Miklosich et
Müller, _Acta et Diplomata Græca_; Tafel und Thomas, _Urkunden zur
Älteren Handels und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig_.
Footnote 774:
The Russian pilgrim, Stephen of Novgorod (_Itinéraires Russes en
Orient_, p. 121), who visited Constantinople about 1350, found a gate
near the sea, and beside a Church of St. Demetrius, named “Portes
Juives,” on account of the many Jews settled in the vicinity. From the
connection in which the fact is mentioned, it appears that the gate
stood on the Marmora side of the city, somewhere in the neighbourhood
of Vlanga; thus showing how the same name might belong to different
gates at different periods in the history of the city. Nicolo Barbaro
(p. 817) confirms the existence of a Jewish quarter on the Marmora
shore of the city, when he says that the Turkish fleet, finding itself
unable to force the chain across the harbour, abandoned the attempt,
and proceeded to the side towards the Dardanelles (“de la band del
Dardanelo”), and there landed to plunder the Jewish quarter (“muntò in
tera de la banda de la Zudeca”). It is possible, indeed, to contend
that the Russian pilgrim referred to a gate near the Church of St.
Demetrius beside the Seraglio Point. This view does not affect the
argument presented in the text.
Footnote 775:
_Tafel und Thomas_, ii. pp. 270-272; cf. _Ibid._, pp. 4-11.
Footnote 776:
_Miklosich et Müller_, iii. pp. 12, 16, 19; cf. _Ibid._, p. 6.
Footnote 777:
Codinus, p. 22; cf. Paspates, p. 158.
Footnote 778:
Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 737.
Footnote 779:
_Miklosich et Müller_, iii. pp. 19-21.
Footnote 780:
Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 365; Gyllius, _De Top. CP._, iii. c. i.
Footnote 781:
_Miklosich et Müller_, iii. pp. 19, 21.
Footnote 782:
_Ibid._, p. 19.
Footnote 783:
See above, p. 10.
Footnote 784:
Nicephorus Patriarcha, _CP._, p. 57; Theophanes, p. 591; Theophanes
Cont., p. 391.
Footnote 785:
Anonymus, ii. p. 30; Codinus, p. 52.
Footnote 786:
_Miklosich et Müller_, iii. p. 6. Such a factory can be seen to-day at
Keurekdjilar, in Galata.
Footnote 787:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 582; Cedrenus, vol. i. pp. 609, 610; ii. p. 529.
Footnote 788:
_De Top. CP._, iii. c. i.; _De Bosporo Thracio_, ii. c. ii.
Footnote 789:
Page 454.
Footnote 790:
_Pand. Hist Turc._, s. 200.
Footnote 791:
Phrantzes, p. 254.
Footnote 792:
Ducas, p. 282. Phrantzes and Ducas are the only Byzantine writers who
mention the Beautiful Gate.
Footnote 793: