Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors - Theodōros Spandouginos - Google Books

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Theodore Spandounes (or Spandugnino) belonged to a Byzantine refugee family who had settled in Venice after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. He wrote an account of the origins of the Turkish rulers and of their phenomenal rise to power. It…