Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

28 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. but is not the same as, Roumanian. Some consider them as descendants of the Roman colonists, others as the remains of native Thracian tribes who had adopted the Latin tongue. This latter theory seems very probable. Be this as it may, all contemporary writers refer to Kalojan (John Asen), one of the most distinguished of the line, as a Vlah. A priest, we are told, who was taken prisoner besought Asen in Vlah,' which was also his tongue '; Pope Innocent III., with whom he corresponded-for he declared himself for the Roman Church, and was crowned by a Cardinal sent by the Pope-addressed him as a Vlah or Roman; and Villehardouin, in his vivid account of the fourth Crusagde and the establishment of the short-lived empire of the Latins at Byzantium, says ' Johannis etait un Blaque.' He called himself Tsar of the Bulgars and Vlahs. His son, also a John Asen, almost succeeded in restoring Bulgaria's lost glory. He re-established the Orthodox Bulgarian Patriarchy, this time at Trnovo, his capital; he reconquered all Macedonia, a large part of Albania, and part of Servia, and threatened Byzantium. But he died in I24I, and by this time the Serbs had to be reckoned with. The big Bulgaro-Vlah Empire did not live fifty years. Servia now rose rapidly, established an independent Church, and became the dominant Power. Mediaeval Servia was not, geographically, the Servia of to-day. Its heart was the land which is now called 'Old Servia,' and is still part of the Sultan's empire. Its line of Nemanja Princes who
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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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