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1432 A Burgundian spy on the Ottomans routes

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019

Abstract

Disguised as a Muslim, Bertrandon de la Broquière went through Syria and Asia Minor in 1432-33 as a spy of Philip the Good. He reports a treatise Voyage d'outremer, rich on information about these regions, to advise the duke of Burgundy about the Muslim expansion,