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I am a bit puzzled by all this.* It is, I think, fair to say that the Ottomans did not so much conquer Byzantium as encourage its collapse and occupy the vacuum. But that is not the whole answer.**

*[Ref last two previous ts journal entries, [Redbook9:170][19910421:1410qq]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Late Period}[21st April 1991]&f]

**{See [[Redbook9:173][19910421:1410xx]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Late Period [continued (8)]}[21st April 1991],] 173}

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