Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, Cambridge 1966 [1954], vol 3, p | Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, 155 |
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Possibly from the largest city in the world with 500,000 inhabitants to just 40,000—70,000: The Inheritance of Rome, Chris Wickham, Penguin Books Ltd | A description can be found in the |
Source for quote: Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum, ed T Preger I 105 see , History of the Byzantine Empire, 1952, vol I, p.
23"Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ended June 30, 1912 | Talbot, "Restoration of Constantinople", p |
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The officer given the task was killed by the crowd, and in the end the image was removed rather than destroyed: It was to be restored by and removed again by : Finlay 1906, p | Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, 144 |
Geanakoplos, Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West Harvard University Press, 1959 , p.