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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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9. THE TURKISH CONQUEST. 697

circuitous route seems to prove that he thought it unsafe to take the
direct route, as being too much exposed to the Turks ; and Cinnamus
is probably making an apology for this cautious conduct, when he
laj-s stress on the small numbers of Manuel's army, owing to deser-
tion and other causes.

It is therefore apparent that the Pentapolis was never entered by
a Byzantine force after 1158, while the Banaz-Ova was entered for
the last time in 1176.
 
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