Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

OF THE ALBANIAN. 2 233 and Foreign Bible Society for the translation of the Gospels. But it is hopelessly unpractical and very expensive, requiring special type and typesetter, and will soon be superseded. Many attempts have been made to use the Latin alphabet, and the extremely practical system invented by' Mgr. Premi Dochi, the Abbot of the Mirdites, has overcome most of the difficulties, and, owing to its great simplicity, is making rapid way. The first book in the alphabet of I879 was published at Constantinople, but the printing of the language was not long after forbidden on Turkish soil. The Sultan had learnt from experience that schools are centres of revolution, and would hear of no more national educational movements. Latterly he has made very active efforts to suppress the tongue altogether. In the South many people have been imprisoned for possessing books or papers printed in it, and all schools teaching it are forbidden. But North Albania is a circumstance over which the Sultan has little control; it possesses a printingpress and several schools. A language may die a natural death. I doubt if one has ever been killed. Persecution has perhaps supplied the necessary fillip. The knowledge of reading and writing the language is spreading rapidly. You find it in very unexpected quarters, and as a common bond of sympathy it is knitting together all classes of the people. Papers printed In London, in Rome, in Sofia, and Bukarest are
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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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