Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

CHAPTER II WE have now seen the pageant of the passing of the nations; have seen each in turn decked in brief glory, and all in the end overwhelmed by a foreign conqueror. It is time to consider how far they had reached in the history of a nation's development; for peoples, like individuals, must all pass through certain phases of growth. All Europe, it should be remembered, was at this time busy growing up. As in the Balkan Peninsula, so everywhere else was the struggle carried on by Prince against Prince, Duke against Duke; one-man empires rose and fell, peoples worked out their salvation or destruction, and the modern powers of Europe gradually came into being by a long and uninterrupted process of evolution. With the Balkan peoples it was otherwise. While still in an early stage of national development their growth was arrested-arrested with extraordinary completeness. Till the period of the arrival of the Turks they had been growing. Trade routes had been opened by Greek, Bulgar, and Serb, and considerable traffic took place with Venice and Ragusa. The arts were cultivated; national
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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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