Turcæ, People called Turkes, whiche inhabited the countrey ioyning to the sea Caspium, and the hil Caucasus, some of them were accounted among the people of Scythia, of whome Pomponius Mela maketh mention: whiche aboute 750, yeares passed, wandring about as vacabound robbers, wasted and destroyed diners countreys: but afterwarde by the valiaunt prowes of Christian Princes. in the time of Godfray of Boloigne, and after, their puissaunce was abated. After, in the yeare of our Lord 1300. one Othomannus, the renth from Solymannus, not many yeares since% greate tyrant of the Turkes, a plough mans sonne, valiaunte and subtile of wit, gathering a great armie of vacabounds, wan a great countrey in Asia the lesse: and so successiuely euerye one since hath encreased their dominion, hauing nowe vnder their subiection all Asia the lesse, Syria, Media, Mesopotamia, Aegipt, Græcia, Illyria, eueriche of these containing many great and famous realmes: besides Hungarte, the yle of the Rhodes, and many other yles sometime Christened. They doe now call Turchia, properly that which was named Asia minor, and some doe name it Natolia.
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