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Deep13

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7. I was just reading about that last week.

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 05:45 PM

Feb 2013

Apparently, at that time it was just a husk of a city with maybe 30k villagers within the wall. Once the Ottomans took over, the city had a kind of rebirth. The Turks restored much of the infrastructure--fixing the damage caused by the 4th Crusade, among other things, and after about a century, the population was around 400k.

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I was just reading about that last week. Deep13 Feb 2013 #7

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