• sometimes with Critobulus' provenance affixed (e.g. Critobulus of Imbros). Critobulus' birth name was Michael Critopoulos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Κριτόπουλος). He changed...
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    Michael Psellos or Psellus (Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ψελλός, romanized: Michaḗl Psellós, Byzantine Greek: [mixaˈil pseˈlːos]) was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant,...
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  • completed in 1458. Although historians of the period such as Doukas and Michael Critobulus stated that it was completed in 1455, the general opinion is that...
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    they preyed on one another without pity." According to Ducas and Michael Critobulus, the population was not harmed by Zaganos Pasha's forces, but Chalkokondyles...
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    1446), invaded Wallachia in November 1447. The Byzantine historian Michael Critobulus wrote that Vlad and Radu fled to the Ottoman Empire, which suggests...
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    province of the Ottoman Empire. According to the Byzantine historian Michael Critobulus, hostilities broke out after an Albanian slave of the Ottoman commander...
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    also strengthened the roads where necessary. The Greek historian Michael Critobulus quotes Mehmed II's speech to his soldiers before the siege: My friends...
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  • Byzantine chronicler". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-01-25. Lapidge, Michael (1996). Anglo-Latin Literature, Vol.1, 600-899. Bloomsbury Publishing....
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    the palace is known due to the accounts of the Byzantine historian Michael Critobulus, who described and named the palace during the Ottoman siege of Constantinople...
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  • Kantakouzenos George Pachymeres Michael Panaretos 15th century John Anagnostes John Cananus Laonikos Chalkokondyles Michael Critobulus Doukas George Sphrantzes...
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