| Show LONG FAMOUS IN HISTORY 6 city of ond in the middle ages was one of the great schools of chivalry the ho old capital of cappa cocin is 13 mentioned by millon in one of his gorgeous cataloguer catalogues catal of places in the I 1 first arst hook of oc lla radise lost where he refers to the knights who once jousted there the city indeed was one of the great schools of medieval chivalry and it Is a german historian borlan professor who tells us that it became in popular romance and in tho the imagination of tho the italians anil and one of the ano most t famous empires of the east enst and ilie hie rallying point ot of the youth hod antl flower of asia readers of ivanhoe may remember that the templar boasts to rebecca that he had won his horse in single fight from the soldan of ond apart from its classical association with xenophon and the retreat of the ten thousand ond was one of the most notable cities of the east in the middle II iddle ages the hellenic Irel lenic trape us or tableland so named from the sloping table of ground on which it stands at the time of the fourth crusade fell into the hands of alexius comments Com menus a scion of the imperial byzantine family who founded there an empire that lasted for two and a half centuries and included the greater part of the southern coast of the black sea the imperial family were renowned for their beauty and princesses of ond were sought in marriage by byzantine emperors western nobles and mohammedan princes |
