Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

THE STORY OF THE PEOPLE. 39 stood has been barren evermore. Then fell Lazar and his heroes thick around him; and the Turks, though they suffered very heavily, remained victors in one of the decisive battles of the world-a battle from which the Balkan peoples still suffer, and whose consequences still threaten the peace of Europe. Murad's body was buried with great pomp at Broussa, and the precious relics of Lazar rest at Vrdnik, in Syrmia; but the bones of Milosh Obilich, the best-beloved hero of that bloody drama, lie buried on the battlefield. 'Come with me to Kosovo and I will show you the grave of the hero Milosh Obilich that killed Sultan Murad! ' cried a gendarme to me. He was a Moslem, and in the Sultan's service; but he was a Bosniak, and, in spite of the apostacy of his forbears, the traditions of his race still loomed large in his imagination. As for Vuk Brankovich, the accursed, he was buried at Krushevatz, the capital of Tsar Lazar, by the Turks, who are said to have piously burnt lamps upon his grave till the Servian uprising at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the Serbs dug up the traitor's bones and scattered their ashes to the four winds. Kosovo is still in the enemy's hands, and the defeat still rankles. Yearly, on June I5, the fatal day, a solemn service is held in the churches throughout Servian lands, and the crimson and black cap worn by the Montenegrins represents blood and mourning.
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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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