sentences:  In 1347 the Black Death had reached Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire; in 1390 the Turks defeated the Greek kingdom in Asia; and ten years later, the Battle of Aleppo marked the advance of the Mongols under Tamerlane.The first surviving written record of Roma in Cyprus is from 1468.In the "Chronicle of Cyprus" compiled by Florio Bustron, the Cingani are said to have paid tax to the royal treasury, at that time under King James II.