Sofia was an enslaved Hungarian woman who was active in the eastern Mediterranean during the middle of the fifteenth century where she was held as a servant by Pietro Giustiniani. She was manumitted in Chios in the summer of 1457 after entering into a service agreement with Raffaele Giustiniani, the son-in-law of Pietro, for a nine-year term that began on 1 January 1455.
This generally refers to those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Specifically refers to military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers.
Solkhat (Staryi Krym in modern terminology) was the capital of the Crimean Khanate and the principal commercial city connecting the Khanate with Caffa.
In the late middle ages, the loconym "Hispania" was a general reference to the Spanish Kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, essentially the region of modern-day Spain.
