Matthew Piette

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according to custom, Mehmet as commander was entitled to a fifth of everything that had been taken. His share of the enslaved Greeks he settled in the city in an area by the Horn, the Phanar district, which would continue as a traditional Greek quarter down to modern times.
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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