Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

THE STORY OF THE PEOPLE. 27 under the rule of the Greek Patriarch. Basil continued his conquering march, and subdued the whole peninsula. Serb, Bulgar, and Albanian alike lay under Greek rule. Byzantium avenged her past humiliation by trampling hard on her former conqueror. But 'every dog has his day,' and from the struggling mass of opposing peoples it was the Serb that now emerged. It is in 1040 that we hear again of Servia. Freeing themselves from Greek rule, the Serbs rose very steadily, and grew in power as Byzantium rotted. About II5o appears the first of the line of Nemanja Princes, who made Great Servia. " Early Servian history is a long war against Greek, Bulgar, and Hungarian, a dim, blood-stained, one-goes-up-when-t'other-goes-down story, too long to tell here. In 1203 Byzantium staggered under the shock of the fourth Crusade-a shock from which it never recovered-and Serb and Bulgar at once grew in power. With the weakening of the Greek Empire came a resurrection of the Bulgars, under the leadership of the Asens, some I60 years after the ruin of their first empire. There seems little doubt that these Asens were not Bulgars, but Vlahs. Of the Vlahs we have as yet made little mention. They are to this day rather a mysterious people, and their origin is not certain. They are scattered all through the Balkan Peninsula in isolated groups, and speak a bastard Latin dialect which resembles,
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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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