John Anagnostes

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Who is John Anagnostes?

John, called Anagnostes was a Greek historian of the fifteenth century. He was an eyewitness to the Ottoman sack of Thessalonica on March 29, 1430; an event he described in detail in his Account of the Last Capture of Thessalonica, which he wrote with an accompanying monodia lamenting the city's fall.

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on July 23, 2013

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