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38 (left). View of Lepanto from the Tarih-i Sultan Bayezid of Matrakci Nasuh, Detail, 38 (above)
c. 1540 (Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayí Müzesi, R. 1272, fols. 21b-22a)

the campaigns of Süleyman between 1520 and 1560. lios (38), shows the city protected by high walls between
Nasuh's Tarih-i Sultan Bayezid (History of Sultan Bayezid), massive towers. Waterways with bridges appear outside the
completed around 1540, narrates the events involving Baye- walls or cut through the city and flow into the sea. In the
zid II and his brother Gem in the 1480s and 1490s. It is illus- center are several ships at anchor in a harbor guarded by two
trated with ten paintings, which depict a number of fortified massive towers. The city is divided into three districts, each
ports such as Coron and Lepanto, the latter called inebahti in enclosed by walls and densely packed with a variety of build-
Turkish. The representation of Lepanto, spread to double fo- ings; many have sloping roofs, although some have belfries

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