This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... ADDITIONAL NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXVII. loannina in the Fourteenth Century. The manuscript alluded to in page 204 having been published in extenso, by M. Pouqueville, (Voyage dans la Grecc, tome 5, ) I shall subjoin an abstract of it, as it presents a curious picture of the condition of Epirus in the fourteenth century. It is a chronicle from 1350 to 1400, and was evidently written by an ecclesiastic: -- "Under the Emperor John Palaeologus, when the Turks were in possession of Smyrna, Ephesus, and Prusa, and ravaged the coasts of Thrace, when the Genoese conquered Chios, and the Franks of Navarre all the Peloponnesus except Monembasia and Lacedaemonialoannina was taken A. D. 1350, by Stephen Krai of the Triballi or Servians, who had previously invaded the lands of the Empire and seized upon the Grecian Vlakhia*, the government of which he bestowed with the title of Cassar upon one of his officers named Prelubo (HpiXovfiirot). The despotate of jEtolia he gave to his own brother Simeon, who, on arriving at loannina, married Thomais, daughter of the last despot Iohn, whose son Nicephorus was then a hostage (o/xnpot) at Constantinople, where he espoused a daughter of John Cantacuzenus. Anna, widow of John, and late queen (fiaaiXis) of the despotate, soon after the union of her daughter with Simeon, was married to a brother of the Krai Stephen, named Comnenus, 1 Mistra. 2 Thessaly. who assumed the government of Kanina and Beligrad (Herat). On the death of the Krai and of the Caesar Prelubo, Nicephorus was sent by the Byzantine government to recover the Despotate; upon which Simeon, with his wife Thomais, retired to Kastoria, where Simeon was proclaimed by his troops king of Servia, although Ureses (OvpeoTjc) son of Stephen was already reigning; and...