Note 51 — Chapter I · OSMAN A NEW RACE APPEARS IN HISTORY
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Pach., in Stritter, Memoriae Populorum, iii. 1086-7; D’Ohsson, Histoire des Mongols, iv. 315. Andronicus made a second appeal in 1308, and gave his own sister, Marie, who is known to later Mongol historians as ‘Despina Khatun’, to Mohammed Khodabendah Khan, after Khodabendah’s conversion to Islam: ibid., iv. 536; Hertzberg, Geschichte der Byzantiner und des Osmanischen Reiches, p. 461.