474 DESTEUCTION OF THE GEEEK EMPIEE 383 ; friendly intercourse with Mahomet, ib. Sea-fight of April 20, 1453 : where it took place, 436 sqq. Seljukian Turks, 2, 6 ; their sultan called himself ' Sultan of Bourn,' 53 Selymbria (modern Silivria) : captured (1260) by Strategopulus, 17 Seraglio Point, 238, 244, 359 Serbians, 25 ; procured aid alike from Turks and Tartars, 99 ; their com- ! plete subjection to Turks, 107 sq. j Shishman, king of Bulgaria, 134 Sicilian Vespers (1282), 36, 41 Sigismund, Emperor, 121 Sigismund, King (Hungary) : defeated by Murad II., 157 ; co-operates with Manuel against Bajazed : battle of I Nicopolis, 110, 134 Silivria. See Selymbria Slaves : captured Christians sold as, 78 Slivnitza, battle of (1443) : Turks com- pletely defeated by Hunyadi, 161 Smyrna : captured by Timour, 146 Sobieski, John : relief of Vienna, 416 ' Soldiers ' : meaning of the term in the Crusades, 11 n. Sphendone of the Hippodrome, the, 260 Stamboul : derivation of name, 237 n. Stephen, kral of Serbia : his advance against the empire, 72 ; took title of Emperor of Serbia and Bomania, 101 Stockade, Justiniani's, 255 Strategopulus, Emperor Michael's general, 17 ; his capture of Con- stantinople, 18 sq. Studium, fortress of, 253 Sublime Porte, The (or 'The Lofty Gate ') : meaning of the term, 58 Subutai, Tartar leader in Eussia, 53 Suliman, Sultan (Bajazed's successor, 1402-09) : married Manuel's grand- daughter, 112 ; escape from Angora, 145 ; struggle with his brothers, 149 ; killed by Janissaries, ib. Suliman, son of Orchan, 101 ; defeat of Tartars in Asia Minor, ib. ; cap- ture of Angora, 102 Supernatural omens : discussion of the strange phenomena at Constanti- nople (May 22-26, 1453), 296 sqq. ; the growth of a myth, 298 ; opinion of Turks about them, 316 ; conflict- ing accounts, 316 n. Supremacy, papal : not publicly dis- cussed at Council of Florence, 126 Sventigrad, siege of, 202 Szegedin, treaty of (1444), 161 ; results of its speedy violation, 161 sqq. Tana, the great caravan route from, 23 Tarentum, Philip of, son-in-law of Charles of Valois, 39 ; failure of his designs against Constantinople, 40 Tartars, the, 31, 36, (the form ' Tatars ' is incorrect) 52 and n., 53 sq., (a great number in Thrace in 1324) 64, 73 n., 99 sq. ; in Bajazed's army at Angora, 144 ; their name derived by Crusaders from Tartarus, 53 ; later Greek authors use it as distinction from Ottoman Turks, 144 n. Teleboles, Greek name for cannon, 293 Tetaldi, a Florentine soldier : his ' In- formacion,' xii ; a defender in the siege, 311 Teucri : Turks called so by some Latin writers, 394 n., 410 Theodore, Greek despot of Epirus, 8 ; proclaimed emperor at Salonica (1222), 9 Theodosian walls (Constantinople), 238, 240 Theophilus Palaeologus, 350 Therapia, fortress of, 253 Thessalonica, kingdom of, 40 Thomas, brother of Constantine Dra- gases, 201 Time, Eastern mode of reckoning, 351 n. Timour, ruler of Tartars on Volga, 63 Timour (or Tamerlane : Timour the Lame), 55 ; his summons to Bajazed, 112 ; his origin and character, 139 ; enormous host of followers, ib. ; his career of conquest and barbarism, 139 sq. ; in Egypt, 140 ; kept from Jerusalem by a plague of locusts, ib. ; carnage attending his captures, 141 ; requests aid from West to crush the Turkish sultan (Bajazed), ib. ; battle of Angora (1402) : Bajazed defeated and taken prisoner, 143 sq. ; Timour's progress in conquest, 145 ; horrible cruelties, 147 ; his death, ib. ; results of battle of Angora, 147 Trajan, Gate of (Slivnitza), 160 Trebizond : its rulers assumed title of emperor, 5 ; the empire put an end to (1461) by Mahomet II., 387; summary of its history, ib. Trevisano, Gabriel : leading Venetian commander at the great siege, 220 sq. ; helped in Coco's scheme, 281 ; with his men, is transferred to the defence of the walls at Aivan Serai, 289; defeats an attack by Zagan, 359; a prisoner in hands of Turks, 369
