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Niccolò I Gattilusio
Niccolò I Gattilusio was a Genoese lord of Ainos (Enez) at the mouth of the Maritsa in Thrace. A brother of Francesco I Gattilusio, lord of Lesbos, he took control of Ainos around 1384 and also acted as regent on Lesbos. He founded the branch of the family that held Ainos as Byzantine and then Ottoman vassals until 1456.
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