Journals / Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi / 1991 / Cilt: 15 - Sayı: 26
THE GENOESE COLONIES IN FRONT OF THE TURKISH ADVANCE
- Journal
- Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi
- Pages
- 381–389
- DOI
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Özet
The situation of the Gerioese colonies in the East after the faııof Constantinople is efficaciously reflected in two letters sent toGenoa, a few months distant the one from the other, from Pera andfrom Chios. In the first letter, written on the 23 rd of June 1453, theex-podesta of Pera, Angelo Giovanni Lomellino, related the tragicevents of the conquest of the Greek Capital city and the surrenderof the Genoese colo~y: