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regard to the costume of its inhabitants, we chap. 
have only to view the dresses worn by the . 
Greeks themselves, as they are frequently 
represented upon the gems and coins of the 
country, as well as those used in much earlier 
ages\ There is every reason to believe, that 
the Turks themselves, at the conquest of 
Constantinople, adopted many of the customs, 
and embraced the refinements, of a people 
they had subdued. Their former habits had 
been those of Nomade tribes; their dwellings 
were principally tents ; and the camp, rather 
than the city, had distinguished their abode. 
Hence it followed, that, with the houses, the 
furniture and even the garb of the Greeks would 
necessarily be associated ; neither do the divans 
of Turkish apartments differ from those luxu- 
rious couches, on which the Greeks and Romans 
were wont to repose. At the capture of 
(4) The dress wen by the Popes of Rome, upon solemn occasions, 
corresponds with tlie habits of tlie Roman Emperors in the lower ages : 
and from a representation of the portrait of Manuel Palaologus (Seethe 
Vignette to this Chapter), as taken from an antient manuscript, and pre- 
served in Bandurius, (Vid. Impermm Orientale, torn. II. p. 991. ed. 
Par. 1711,) it appears that there is little difierence between the costume 
of a Greek Emperor in the ffteenlli century, and a Grand Signior in the 
nineleenlh. — The mark of distinction worn upon the head of the Turkish 
Sultans, and other grandees of the Empire, of which the calalkus was an 
archetype, is also another remarkable circumstance in the identity of 
antient and modern customs. 
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