OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY EDWARD GIBBON EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND APPENDICES BY J. B. BURY, D.Litt., LL.D. CORRESPONDING YEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ST. PETERSBURG IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN SEVEN VOLUMES VOLUME VII WITH NINETEEN ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP AND PLAN METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794; The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Reprint of the 1909-14 ed. 1. Rome-History-Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Reprinted by arrangement with Methuen & Company Ltd., From the edition of 1914, London International Standard Book Number: AMS PRESS INC. Conquests of Zingis Khan and the Moguls from China to Poland-Escape of Constantinople and the Greeks—Origin of the Ottoman Turks in Bithynia -Reigns and Victories of Othman, Orchan, Amurath the First, and Bajazet 4.D. PAGE 1206-1227_Zingis Khan, first Emperor of the Moguls and Tartars His Laws 1210-1214 His invasion of China 1218-1224 Of Carizme, Transoxiana, and Persia 1227-1295 Conquests of the Moguls under the successors of Zingis 1234 Of the Northern Empire of China ... 1258 Of Persia, and the Empire of the Caliphs 1235-1245 Of Kipzak, Russia, Poland, Hungary, &c. 1227-1259 The Successors of Zingis 1259-1368 Adopt the Manners of China 1259-1300 Division of the Mogul Empire 1240-1304 Escape of Constantinople and the Greek Empire from the Moguls 1304 Decline of the Mogal Khans of Persia 1326-1339 His Conquest of Bithynia 1300 Division of Anatolia among the Turkish Emirs 1312 Loss of the Asiatic Provinces 1310-1523 The Knights of Rhodes 1341-1347 First Passage of the Turks into Europe Death of Orchan and his Son Soliman 1360-1389 The Reign and European Conquests of Amurath I. 1389-1403 The Reign of Bajazet I. Iiderim His Conquests from the Euphrates to the Danube 1396-1398 Crusade and Captivity of the French Princes ... ... ... |