Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

CHAPTER III THE Slav, the blood-enemy of more than a thousand years, was gaining power-Russia's great struggle for the peninsula had begun. Albania supplied troops for the Crimean War and the Mirdites, the most independent of all the mountain tribes, led by their Prince, Bib Dodo, fought side by side with the Turks against the hated foe. The tale of the Crimean War needs no retelling. Russia's advance was checked, but in appearance only. Up till this time the Bulgarians alone of all the subject peoples had scarcely shown a sign of life. They had produced no leader, and they aided neither the Servian nor the Greek rising. Russia conceived the plan of constructing a Russo-Bulgarian State which should lead to Constantinople, and set to work with admirable skill. Bulgarian students were welcomed at the University of Odessa, and a national movement was started. Not to be undene, Austria began a similar game on the other side of the peninsula, and planted Jesuits in Skodra. Everything is interesting in the Balkan Peninsula, the great game played by Austria versus
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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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