Dardanelles Strait (1482, Christophoro Bondelmonti) Jehan de Mandeville, who wrote under the name Mandeville, initially wrote in Anglo-Norman French. He became particularly popular between 1357-1371. In his memoirs, he describes himself as a knight and states that he was born in England. Researchers suggest that the name John Mandeville was not his real name. Recent researchers propose that the travel writings under the name Mandeville were actually the work of Jan de Langhe, who used the names Johannes Longus in Latin and Hean le Long in French. Mandeville traveled through Turkey in 1322, visiting Armenia, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia. From his writings, it is understood that he frequently visited Jerusalem:
"Istanbul (Constantinople) is a very beautiful and good city, its walls are very strong and triangular. There is a branch of the Dardanelles (Hellespont), which some call the mouth of Istanbul (Constantinople), and others name it the arm of St George; this branch surrounds the two parts of the city. On the upper part of the sea, near the water, there was the magnificent city of Troy with a beautiful plain; but this city was destroyed by the Greeks, and only a small part of it can be seen, as it was destroyed in very ancient times."
