375--384.] [Footnote 15: A city surrounded by the River Hebrus, and six leagues to the south of Adrianople, received from its double wall the Greek name of Didymoteichos, insensibly corrupted into Demotica and Dimot.

I have preferred the more convenient and modern appellation of Demotica.

This place was the last Turkish residence of Charles XII.] [Footnote 16: Their quarrel is told by Villehardouin (No.

146--158) with the spirit of freedom.

The merit and reputation of the marshal are so acknowledged by the Greek historian (p.