From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10571 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, January 23 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10571 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Congratulations! You can get a $50 Kohl's gift card! ["Amazing Deals" Subject: Congratulations! You can get a $50 Kohl's gift card! Congratulations! You can get a $50 Kohl's gift card! http://clavusinfungusfelife.best/GdM3mjWQxwRBBxI5KrEflozh-cHjskNM0n8Gk36Ght3ZlFYrDA http://clavusinfungusfelife.best/tFAHpce3_rQZPFrsCQ_VKgTRrGEnwQ1TNJTMAc8tPefET86Ynw ppointed to oversee the handover were authorized to provide a sum of 20,000b40,000 aspers from the revenue of the city as a yearly subsidy to Andronikos, should he request it. The offer arrived in Venice at an opportune time. The election of Francesco Foscari on 15 April 1423 as Doge of Venice had placed a proponent of a more aggressive and unyielding stance against Ottoman expansionism at the head of the Republic. But the majority of the Great Council of Venice was still dominated by the more cautious tendencies of the merchant nobility that ruled the Republic and they feared the disruption to trade that open war with the Ottomans would bring. Since the Fourth Crusade, the Venetians had consciously adopted a policy of gradually acquiring outposts, fortresses and islands from the collapsing Byzantine Empire, providing bases that secured Venice's valuable trading links with the East. For some time Venice had viewed Thessalonica as a possible expansion target, especially as Constantinople seemed to be on the verge of falling to the Turks. Thus in 1419, Venice re-established a consulate in the city, headed by a local Greek, George Philomati, and after his death in 1422 by his brother Demetrios. At a session of the Great Council on 7 July, Andronikos' offer was accepted. The council sent notices to the Venetian colonies in the Aegean Sea (Negroponte, Nauplia, Tinos and Mykonos) and the vassal Duke of Naxos, to prepare ships to take possession of the city, while the Republic's bailo at Constantinople was instructed to secure the assent of Emperor ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10571 ***********************************************