Travels in Southeastern Europe

The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

OCHRIDA. 203 some Power or other extract territory from the burn ing. That he rose on behalf of Bulgaria is owing to the fact that the Bulgar party, though Bulgaria is a poor country, has for the last thirty years outbid easily all others. He would have risen as willingly for Servia or Greece had they been able to finance the matter as liberally. When Von Hahn visited Ochrida in I868 he found one Slav school and four Greek, and the people expressed their preference for the Greek party. Since then money has been poured into the land with a lavishness that is amazing. It comes from 'outside,' and is paid to the Exarch Josef. Or it is a handsome present from the Russian Consul to the neighbourhood. It is called ' Pan-Slavonic,' but it works against the Serb, who is as Slav as anybody. I remembered the bitter cry of Servia as I had heard it eighteen months before: 'Europe did not consider us as peoples; she mapped the Balkan Peninsula out into spheres of influence, and we are in the Austrian sphere.' At Ochrida it was certainly not the Austrian sphere that I was in. The dismay of the people on learn. ing that Russia was not conquering speedily was great. Japanese victories were following one another in quick succession. The local outbreak that had been promised for the end of March was put off., All I could learn from the villagers was that they had had no orders and did not know, and there were only two small bands in the neighbourhood. Once troops were sent out to search Vekchani for a band of twenty-five. The soldiers, who have a
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The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
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Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
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London :: Nelson,
[1905]
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Eastern question (Balkan)
Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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