[44] According to ancient authorities, Byzantium was built by a Grecian
colony about 658 B.C.
[45] An Armenian historian says, Tigranes translated thirty thousand
inhabitants of Cappadocia, the Greek historian three hundred thousand.
[46] Rawlinson, “The Seventh Oriental Monarchy,” p. 546.
[47] Mohammed was born in Mecca 570, he fled to Medina 622. “Hegira”
(the flight), and he died in the latter city A.D. 632, after two weeks
of intense suffering which began before his death. See Chap XII, p. 204.
[48] See p. 52.
[49] The Kings of this dynasty: Ashod I, Sumpat I, Ashod II, Abas,
Ashod III, Sumpat II, Cakig I, John Sumpat, Cakig II.
[50] Balasanian, “History of Armenia,” p. 285. (This work is written in
Armenian language.)
[51] Milner, “The Turkish Empire,” p. 5.
[52] Milner, “The Turkish Empire,” London, pages 238-9.