THE TURK AND HIS
LOST PROVINCES
THE BALKAN STATES
TO ACCOMPANY
“THE TURK AND HIS LOST PROVINCES,”
By Wm. Eleroy Curtis
The TURK and HIS
LOST PROVINCES
GREECE
BULGARIA
SERVIA
BOSNIA
BY
WILLIAM ELEROY CURTIS
Author of “The True Thomas Jefferson,” “The Yankees of the
East,” “Between the Andes and the Ocean,” etc.
SECOND EDITION
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FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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MCMIII
Copyright, 1903, by
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(April)
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PREFACE
Von Moltke, the great German soldier, predictedthat a universal war would be fought under the wallsof Constantinople. He had faith that the ChristianPowers of Europe, sooner or later, would compel theTurks to respect their moral, political, and financialobligations. This would have been done years agobut for the jealousy of those Powers, and the thousandsof innocent Macedonians who have been massacredand the hundreds of thousands who have suffered fromTurkish cruelty are the victims of that jealousy. TheCzar would intervene, but England, France, Austria,and Germany will not permit him to do so for fearRussia will obtain a port upon the Mediterranean. Atintervals the uprisings in Macedonia have indicated theapproach of hostilities. They have grown more frequentand serious until, as this little book goes topress, Russia and Austria have demanded a better governmentfor Macedonia, and the Sultan has respondedby ordering 250,000 Turkish troops into that province.Diplomatic negotiations and empty assurances mayagain avert war, but every sign indicates that VonMoltke’s prophecy is soon to be fulfilled. The purposeof this publication is to give English readers a fewfacts about the several “buffer states” of the BalkanPeninsula which cannot be elsewhere obtained. It isthe result of a journey thro