Note (2) — 1.—Of the first combat between King Sigmund and the Turks.

(2.) “Pudem.”—In the middle ages, this city was called Bdin or Bydinum (Schafarik, Slawische Alterthümer, etc., ii, 217), transformed by Schiltberger into Pudem, and by Marshal de Boucicault (Petitot Collect., vi, 448) into Baudins. According to Mannert, quoted by Hammer (Hist. de l’E. O., i, 416), Widdin was situated on the site of the ancient Bononia, now called by the people Bodon; but he makes no mention of the Βιδύνη of the Byzantines, which he would have found on consulting Acropolita. Widdin, the capital of Western Bulgaria, was inherited by J. Sracimir upon the death of his father, the King John Alexander, in 1365; and Eastern Bulgaria was bestowed by this sovereign on his younger son, Shishman III. The former was under the necessity of acknowledging the suzerainty of the Porte, in the reign of Amurat I; and there is every reason for supposing that it was he whom Boucicault (448) designates the lord of the country, in saying, that he was a Greek Christian, forcibly subjected to the Turks.—Bruun.