The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913Princeton University Press, 1914 - 140 pages |
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Adri Adrianople Adriatic Albania alliance already annexation Athens Austria Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Balkan Wars Belgrade bishops Black Sea Bosnia boundary Bukarest Bulgaria and Servia Bulgarian army Bulgarian exarchate Bulgarian government Byzantine ceded Central Macedonia century Chalcidician Peninsula Chataldja Chataldja line Christian nations claim concession Constantinople Cretan Crete Crown Prince Czar Daneff Danube declared donia Eastern Macedonia Epirus European Turkey exarchate forces four Allies frontier garia Golema Vreh Greek government Greek patriarch Gueshoff Hellenic Hungary Italy Kavala King Constantine kingdom Kossovo Lake Presba littoral ment Mesta River military millet Monastir Montenegro Moslem occupied Ochrida Ottoman Empire Pashitch political population possession Powers prime minister propaganda in Macedonia race racial recognized Roumania Russia Saloniki Serbs Seres and Drama Servia Servia and Bulgaria Slav Struma Sultan Thrace tion Treaty of Berlin Treaty of Partition troops Turkey in Europe Turkish Uskub Venizelos victory vilayets Vreh line Young Turk party
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Page 7 - Empire may be inferred from the fact that twice in the eighteenth century Austria and Russia discussed the project of dividing it between them.
Page 80 - Of all perplexing subjects in the world few can be more baffling than the distribution of races in Macedonia. The Turks classify the population, not by language or by physical characteristics, but by religion. A Greek is a member of the Orthodox Church who recognizes the patriarch of Constantinople; a Bulgarian, on the other hand, is one of the same religious faith who recognizes the exarch ; and since the Servians in Turkey have no independent church but recognize the patriarchate they are often,...
Page 126 - Powers is destined to continue it would be foolhardy to attempt to predict. THE FUTURE OF THE BALKANS But without pretending to cast a horoscope, certain significant facts may be mentioned in a concluding word.
Page 25 - Russia declared war and her victorious army advanced to the very gates of Constantinople. The Treaty of San Stefano, which Russia then enforced upon Turkey, created a "Big Bulgaria...