Note 636 — Chapter IV · BAYEZID THE OSMANLIS INHERIT THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (continued 2)
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Perondino, p. 31; Sagredo, p. 26; Campana, fol. 8 vº; Raynaldus and Spandugino; Lettres d’un Solitaire turc, i. 106-7. Exposure of women was a common symbol of conquest among the Mongols. It was a formal ceremony at the sack of Pekin and Djenghiz Khan’s sack of Samarkand.