The Genoese colony on the northern side of the Golden Horn where the great harbor chain protecting Constantinople's Imperial Harbor was anchored. Brownworth portrays the Genoese of Galata as treacherous neutrals who not only failed to warn Constantine when Mehmed transported ships overland, but actively warned the Turks of the Byzantine surprise naval attack.
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Episode 16 (6 mentions)
The Genoese colony on the northern side of the Golden Horn where the great harbor chain protecting Constantinople's Imperial Harbor was anchored. Brownworth portrays the Genoese of Galata as treacherous neutrals who not only failed to warn Constantine when Mehmed transported ships overland, but actively warned the Turks of the Byzantine surprise naval attack.
“across its mouth that was anchored in the Tower of Galata, a Genoese colony on the”
“He could of course storm Galata, but he did not yet have a navy capable of challenging”
“over land, bypassing Galata altogether, and dropped his fleet silently into the Imperial”
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