Note 159 — Chapter II · ORKHAN A NEW NATION IS FORMED AND COMES INTO CONTACT WITH THE WESTERN WORLD
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This statement needs especial emphasis, as many historians have followed Chalcocondylas and Bosio in attributing the corsair fleets to Osman and Orkhan. An instance of a careful modern historian making this error is found in Romanin, Historia documentata di Venezia, iii. 147, where he says, ‘La lega ... per raffrenare l’ognor erescente potenza ottomana.’