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- in the 13th century, with other variants being Egripons, Negripo, and Negropont. Under Ottoman rule, the island and its capital were known as Eğriboz...
- The siege of Negroponte was fought between the forces of the Ottoman Empire, led by Sultan Mehmed II in person, and the garrison of the Venetian colony...
- Shemariah ben Elijah Ikriti of Negropont (born c. 1275, died c. 1355) (Hebrew: שמריה בן אליהו האיקריטי) was a Gr****-Jewish philosopher and Biblical exegete...
- trace of any mines in the area. In the Late Middle Ages, it was known as Negropont(e), an Italian name that has also been applied to the entire island of...
- in the 17th century: Sanjak of Gelibolu (Gallipoli) Sanjak of Ağriboz (Negropont) Sanjak of Karlıeli (Aetolia-Acarnania) Sanjak of İnebahtı (Naupactus)...
- of 1688, Morosini, now having been proclaimed Doge of Venice, attacked Negropont but was unable to capture it and was forced to return to Venice when plague...
- Baldwin made his way to the harbor, where he boarded a Venetian galley to Negropont. From there he proceeded to Athens, then to Apulia, and finally to France...
- name of Chalkis. In contemporary English sources it is usually known as Negropont after the Italian name for Chalkis and the island of Euboea, Negroponte...
- early 17th centuries, they lost most of these, such as Cyprus and Euboea (Negropont) to the Turks. Between 1645 and 1669, the Venetians and the Ottomans fought...
- in Venice (hence mariner) and was commendatary of Chalkis, then called Negropont. Flagellum ſolis. Alexander. V. Græcus Archiepiſcopus Mediolanenſis, inſignia...