Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

70 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. to construct a huge Bulgaria, which was to be under Russian control. To attain this end, Vlah, Bulgar, Serb, Greek, and Albanian were to have been swept willy-nilly into a Bulgaria almost as large as the fleeting mediaeval one-a Bulgaria which was to have included the great lakes of Ochrida and Presba, spread away beyond them into South Albania, and in the South-East to have extended as far as the AEgean Sea, with a large frontage thereon; a Bulgaria which was, moreover, to be occupied by 50,ooo Russian troops. It was an extraordinarily bold scheme, but it was too bold. The Russian Treaty of San Stefano was overthrown by the Powers of Europe in council at Berlin, new frontiers were delimited, and Russia's Great Bulgaria reduced considerably. Before travelling in the district most immediately concerned I held the rather popular theory that the overthrowing of the San Stefano Treaty was a mistake. When living in the heart of the disputed territory, I learn that to have supported it would have been a most grievous injustice; the Bulgars, and the Bulgars alone, lament the death of that scheme. Whatever may be the faults of the Berlin Treaty, it does not favour one race at the expense of all the others, though the races dealt with were not entirely content with their new borders; for it is very difficult for any set of diplomatists to map out peoples of which they have little or no personal knowledge, in a land which they have never explored. And, moreover, they
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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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