Post by Patrinos on Jul 8, 2009 6:51:49 GMT -5
It's an extract from the text of the "crusade-fun'-antigreek noble Venetian Marino Sanuto or Sanudo the Elder of Torcello (c. 1260 – 1338), one of the most known and influential Venetian, from his "Istoria del regno di Romania sive regno di Morea,".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Sanuto_the_Elder
I translated from greek :Istoria tes Romanias, Marino Sanoudo Torsello, eisagogi, ekdosi, metafrasi, sxolia Eutuxia Papadopoulou, 2000, p.164-67.
"....Now we will speak about the oversea kings and what I'm going to say I have collected them from different trustworthy people from different nations.
The first is the Emperor of the Greeks (l'imperator de Greci) who holds now lengthy and populous land, as it is known. After him the two kings of the Georgians, by whom the one is subject and faithful to the Tatars of Persia, but not the other who follows the heresy of the Greeks. Georgians are people very grasping, but very skillful warriors, more than any other asian nation- and this doesn't stand only for the men but also for the women. Fourth king is the Komnenos of Trapezous, who comes from the Emperor's family. There are also two kings of dukes in Russia, who follow the greek heresy, and as I’ve informed, are subjects to the Tatars and holds a huge land and in length and in breadth, in this Russia, that one of its part is called Great Russia and the other Small Russia, there the squirrels are born plenteously. Also the emperor of Zagora(Bulgaria) who neighbors with the Emperor of Konstantinoupolis and that extends his kingdom until river Dunabe, that have its own sources in Souebia, cross Bavaria and the Austria of Alamania and Hungary going down to Euxeine Sea, which the Franks call Mar Magiore, and he is the seventh big king who follows the ritual of the Greeks. Eighth is the king of Serbia, that holds lands in the coast of Adriatic, which extend about two hundred miles length and belongs to the Church of Rome, but all the people of the inland, that in majority are with the side of this king, follow the heresy and the ritual of the Greeks. Ninenth is the Despote of Arta.
It is true that there are many people dispread here and there, that are subjects to other rulers, and follow the Greek rite, like the nation of the Chazars, which is subject to the Tatars, and to other rulers established in the north of Mar Magiore. And in Hungary, they say that there are more than sixty thousands people who follow the greek rite.
In Minor Asia, which is a land larger than Spain, where as we said are four kingdoms, and where the biggest part is subject to the Turks, the most of them follow the greek rite and the most of them are Greeks. Even (Small) Armenia, which in old times was called Kilikia, is inhabited by Greeks.
In Mesopotamia there is a not small number of Greeks, and there were much more in the period of the Crusade of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon, whose brother Baldwin, was comte of Mesopotamia and was called comte of Roa. In the Sultanate of Kairo, where now Tatars of Persia dominate, and Greeks and Turks, and the Greeks follow the greek rite, and in the sultanate once there were forty cities fortified with castles.
In the islands Cyprus, Crete, Euboia, Rhodes and in other islands, and in the Despotate of Moreas, even though these areas are subject to the Franks and are now under the Church of Rome, almost all the inhabitants are Greeks and follow the same rite(greek) and their heart is devoted to the greek habits and when they will be able to arise freely they wil do it.
So it is obvious that Greeks and their coreligionists hold more lands than the Catholic kings do. It is sure, that catholics are much better warriors and abler and more numerous than Greeks.
There are also many Greeks in Calabria and in the area of Otranto, who are under the Holy Church of Rome, but are not so devoted as they would be if the Emperor and Patriarch of Konstantinoupolis and the son of this emperor, kyr Andronikos, were also devoted and faithful to the Church of Rome, and not insubordinate, fact with serious consequences...."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino_Sanuto_the_Elder
I translated from greek :Istoria tes Romanias, Marino Sanoudo Torsello, eisagogi, ekdosi, metafrasi, sxolia Eutuxia Papadopoulou, 2000, p.164-67.
"....Now we will speak about the oversea kings and what I'm going to say I have collected them from different trustworthy people from different nations.
The first is the Emperor of the Greeks (l'imperator de Greci) who holds now lengthy and populous land, as it is known. After him the two kings of the Georgians, by whom the one is subject and faithful to the Tatars of Persia, but not the other who follows the heresy of the Greeks. Georgians are people very grasping, but very skillful warriors, more than any other asian nation- and this doesn't stand only for the men but also for the women. Fourth king is the Komnenos of Trapezous, who comes from the Emperor's family. There are also two kings of dukes in Russia, who follow the greek heresy, and as I’ve informed, are subjects to the Tatars and holds a huge land and in length and in breadth, in this Russia, that one of its part is called Great Russia and the other Small Russia, there the squirrels are born plenteously. Also the emperor of Zagora(Bulgaria) who neighbors with the Emperor of Konstantinoupolis and that extends his kingdom until river Dunabe, that have its own sources in Souebia, cross Bavaria and the Austria of Alamania and Hungary going down to Euxeine Sea, which the Franks call Mar Magiore, and he is the seventh big king who follows the ritual of the Greeks. Eighth is the king of Serbia, that holds lands in the coast of Adriatic, which extend about two hundred miles length and belongs to the Church of Rome, but all the people of the inland, that in majority are with the side of this king, follow the heresy and the ritual of the Greeks. Ninenth is the Despote of Arta.
It is true that there are many people dispread here and there, that are subjects to other rulers, and follow the Greek rite, like the nation of the Chazars, which is subject to the Tatars, and to other rulers established in the north of Mar Magiore. And in Hungary, they say that there are more than sixty thousands people who follow the greek rite.
In Minor Asia, which is a land larger than Spain, where as we said are four kingdoms, and where the biggest part is subject to the Turks, the most of them follow the greek rite and the most of them are Greeks. Even (Small) Armenia, which in old times was called Kilikia, is inhabited by Greeks.
In Mesopotamia there is a not small number of Greeks, and there were much more in the period of the Crusade of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon, whose brother Baldwin, was comte of Mesopotamia and was called comte of Roa. In the Sultanate of Kairo, where now Tatars of Persia dominate, and Greeks and Turks, and the Greeks follow the greek rite, and in the sultanate once there were forty cities fortified with castles.
In the islands Cyprus, Crete, Euboia, Rhodes and in other islands, and in the Despotate of Moreas, even though these areas are subject to the Franks and are now under the Church of Rome, almost all the inhabitants are Greeks and follow the same rite(greek) and their heart is devoted to the greek habits and when they will be able to arise freely they wil do it.
So it is obvious that Greeks and their coreligionists hold more lands than the Catholic kings do. It is sure, that catholics are much better warriors and abler and more numerous than Greeks.
There are also many Greeks in Calabria and in the area of Otranto, who are under the Holy Church of Rome, but are not so devoted as they would be if the Emperor and Patriarch of Konstantinoupolis and the son of this emperor, kyr Andronikos, were also devoted and faithful to the Church of Rome, and not insubordinate, fact with serious consequences...."