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- ↑ Wright 2004 , passim "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
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- ↑ Sanudo & Fulin 1969–1979 , Volumes 2.685 and 3.1119.
- ↑ Sathas 1880–1890 , Volume 6.
- ↑ Wright & Melville-Jones 2008.
- ↑ Sanudo & Aricò 2001 , Volume II, pp. 407, 420–421, 439–441.
- ↑ Brown 1864 , pp. 155–158.
- ↑ Wright 1999 , pp. 17–18.
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