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Murad bombarded it for three days, destroying the fortifications, and subsequently massacred the defenders and pillaged the countryside, ending all hopes of its independence. The relevant passage in the Apodeixis which describes the siege presents the event from the viewpoint of a witness. It has thus been proposed by Miller that Laonikos was "evidently" an eye-witness to this battle, although the historian Theodore Spandounes claims Laonikos was the secretary of Murad II and present at the Battle of Varna

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