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After the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 a number of able Byzantine scholars fled from the invading Turks to Western Europe, where they translated these encyclopedic texts from Greek into Latin for the emerging European universities. These works included the medical studies based on Galenism which would be the basis of European university medical education past the Renaissance.