Chapter I: Iconoclasts, image-breakers, ii. 32

Inauguration of the sultan, i. 49

Irené, death of, i. xvi.;
widow of II. Leo builds a monastery on Princes’ Islands, ii. 20

Islam, the meaning of, i. xii.

Istambol-dichare, extra-mural quarter of Constantinople, ii. 47

J

Janissaries, origin of corps, i. xiii;
destruction of, xxvi, xxvii;
devastation of tombs, 24;
headless bodies arranged in street, ii. 39, 40;
adherents attempt to burn city, 61

Jason, Columbus of the ancient world, i. p. i, ii. 56;
name preserved in Bosphorus, 10

Jews encouraged by Selim, i. xvii;
came from Spain, ib.;
similarity of usages to Turks, ib.;
settlement at Hasskui, ii. 45

Joannina, ii. 78

Johannes I., Jesabel of Thyatira, lead people astray, ii. 41;
Johannes Zemisces, i. xxxii;
Johannes II. Comnenus, xxxiii;
Johannes III. Cantacuzene, xxxiv;
Johannes IV. Palæologus, ib.;
Johannes V. Palæologus, ib.;
Johannes Zemisces, ii. 31;
poet with flowing hair, 51

Job, Turkish account of, i. 48, 49

Jovian emperor restores Christianity, i. vi;
family of, xxviii

Jouchi Daghi, Giant’s Mountain, i. 51

Julian, the apostate, i. p. v, vi, xxviii

K

Kalifs, lineal descendants of prophet, ii. 50

Keab, veil of, ii. 49

Kef, Marjam, ii. 76

Kiorod, son of Bajazet, ii. 10

Kislas, janissaries’ barracks, ii. 67

Kislar Aga, chief of black eunuchs, ii. 57

Kiz Koulasi, or Maiden’s Tower, legend of, i. 83, 84

Kiz Achmet, ii. 73

Kiuprili, his singular fortune, i. xxii

Kleftes, ii. 84

Kolokithia, name of gourd, i. 8

Kombaragees, barrack of, ii. 44

Koran not allowed to be printed, why, i. 51;
various precepts of, ii. 18;
translated by sultans, 60;
hung up in turbés, 51