INDEX
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Adrian, Emperor, 89
Adrianople, 14, 65, 68 description of, 90 Turkish occupation of, 26
Adriatic coast, 150 Sea, 45
Aegean Islands, 62 Sea, 45
Alani, the, 10
Albania, 14, 17, 62 condition of, 194
Albanian character, 173, 193 massacres, 89 mountains, 152
Alexander of Battenberg. See Alexander of Bulgaria
Alexander, King of Bulgaria, 47 abdication of, 48
Alexander the Great, 6
American war correspondents, 99
Amurath I., Sultan of Turkey, 27
Amurath II., Sultan of Turkey, 27
Architecture, 158
Arjenli, 131
Armenia, 6
Art, applied, 163, 164 modern, 164, 165
Arts and crafts, 162
Asia Minor, invasion of, 17
Asiatic invasions, 11, 12
Assyria, 6
Astrakhan, 9
Austria, 28 and Serbia's trade, 125
Austrian ambitions in the Balkans, 45, 46, 49 war correspondents, 99, 105
Autonomy of the Christian Provinces, 57
Bajayet, Sultan of Turkey, 27
Balkan Alliance, 18, 21, 45, 53, 55, 57, 59, 74, 174, 194 possibilities of, 82
Balkan casualties in the war, 87, 88 character, 124 Committee, the, 91 development, 174 diplomacy, 56, 57 disunion, 75-77, 79 mountains, 3, 151
Balkan Peace Conference, 1912, 75, 78, 80, 81, 176, 188 second phase, 84, 85 spokesman, 83
Balkan peasants, 176 peoples as linguists, 148 politicians, 176 priests, 176 statesmen, 78, 92 War of 1912, 46, 54, 107 War resumed, 84 women, 159
Baltic Sea, 4, 6
Banking, 168, 170
Bashi-Bazouks, 26, 39, 43, 190
Basil, the Bulgar-slayer, 14
Beetroot cultivation, 169
Belgrade, 16, 124, 146 siege of, 27
Bessarabia, 32
Birrell, Major E. T. F., R.A.M.C., 143
Bishop Babylas of Montenegro, 36
Black Sea, 3, 5, 120 littoral, 150
Blood-mist, the, 175
Bosnia, 39, 49
British Army Medical Detachment, 69 opinion, 83 Red Cross Hospital, 143 surgeons, 142
Bucharest, 30, 109
Buda-Pest, 109
Bulgaria, 13, 22, 37 an autonomous principality, 44 beaten, 88 boundaries of (1830), 44 foreign influences in, 97 government of, 40 liberation of, 30 under Serbian rule, 17 a Turkish province, 22, 25 and universal suffrage, 40 at war, 127, 128
Bulgaria of To-day, extract from, 23
Bulgarian ambitions, 61 aristocracy, 179 army of 1912, 41 atrocities, 43 atrocities in Macedonia, 51 autonomy, 40 blunders, 86, 87 censorship. See Censorship character, 177-180 church, 26 commissariat, 69-73, 128 crops, 168 diplomacy, 85-87, 188 diplomatic intrigues, 49 Exarchates, 52 finance, 64, 168 generals, 59 hegemony, 48 hospitals, 143 industry, 167 medical service, 138, 139 military tactics, 66-71 mobilisation, 59, 63, 134 peace negotiations, 79 peasants, 141 preparedness for war, 55, 127 Press Bureau, 185 revolt of 1875, 39, 47 Secret Service, 60 system of land tenures, 168 War of Liberation, 42 women, 135
Bulgars, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13
Buxton, Mr. Noel, M.P., 158
Byzantine art, 164 traditions, 164
Cafés, 160
Carpets, 164
Caucasus, the, 9
Censorship, the, 94, 98, 100, 101, 115, 121 humours of the, 100 the second, 102
Cettinje, 35
Charles, King of Roumania, 39, 41
Chatalja, 61, 68, 117
Cherson, 5
Chersonesos, 5
Choleraic dysentery, 133, 138
Chorlu, 68
Churches. See Architecture
Congress of Berlin, 44, 45
Constantinople, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 20, 26, 43, 61, 62, 137 fall of, 27, 89, 90
Cotton-spinning, 171
Credit Foncier system, 169, 171
Cretan excavations, 4
Crimean War, 32, 38, 107
Crusaders, the, 20
Cyrillic characters, 35
Dacians, 6, 7
Daneff, M., 202
Danilo I., King of Montenegro, 33
Danube, 2, 3, 7, 28, 146
Dardanelles, the, 62
Decius the elder, 8
Decius the younger, 8
Demetrieff, General, 67, 136, 198, 201
Disease, ravages of, 140
Dnieper River, 5
Dniester River, 5
Don Cossacks, 15
Don River, 3
Dual Monarchy, problems of, 28
Dulcigno, 46
Durazzo, 14
Eastern Church, 16
Eastern Rumelia, 48
Egyptian influences, 4
Embroideries, 164
Emigration, 166
English war correspondents, 99
Enos, 88
Ermenikioi, 136, 138, 201
Eski Sagrah, 96, 97
Eski Zagora, 20
European capital, 174 diplomacy, 39, 40 diplomacy and Roumania, 85 finance, 64 policy, 50, 55 policy in 1912-13, 45 Powers, interest of, 96 Powers, intervention of, 58
Euxine, 6
Exarchate Christians, 177
Ferdinand, Czar of Bulgaria, 47, 49, 50, 108, 152, 154 his character, 198-201
Ferdinand of Coburg. See Ferdinand of Bulgaria
Filimer, King of the Goths, 9
Finno-ugric tribe, 3
Forty Holy Martyrs of Bulgaria, 14
Fratricidal war, 87
Frederick Barbarossa, 16
French war correspondents, 99
Gallipoli, Peninsula of, 75
Geographical position, 1
Gepidae, 11
German Powers, 193
German war correspondents, 99
Getae. See Dacians
Goths, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 20 invasions of, 75
Greco-Bulgarian disunion, 79 entente, 76
Greco-Turkish wars, 107
Greece, 37
Greek atrocities in Macedonia, 51 character, 188-191 church, 22 civilisation, 4 coast, 150 diplomacy, 93 Empire, 2, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20 Empire, fall of, 21 governors in Roumania, 31 official report, 76 Patriarchates, 52 patriotism, 167 Prime Minister. See Venizuelos traditions, 164 war of independence, 82
Greeks, 3
Grey, Sir Edward, 85, 203
Grivica Redoubt, 41
Gueshoff, M., 202
Guttones. See Goths
Haskovo, province of, 168
Health resorts, 153
Herodotus, 5
Herzegovina, 39, 49
History, Early, 3, 4
Hodgkin, Mr. T., 5
Hospital services, 141, 142
Hungarians, 11, 13, 28
Huns, 4, 7, 11, 13 invasions of, 9, 75 origin of, 9, 10
"International Socialist," 132
Ionian letter-forms, 5
Istros, 5
Italian Peninsula, 1 war correspondents, 99
Ivan the Black, of Montenegro, 35
Ivankeui, battle of, 67
Janina, 75
Japanese censorship, 98
Jireček, 2
John Asên, Czar of Bulgaria, 14
John Hunyad, 27
John Paleologos, Emperor of Greece, 21
Jonescu, M. Take, 198, 205
Jostoff, Colonel, 138
Journalism, 108-110
"Kara George." See Petrovic
Kirk Kilisse, 42, 65, 139
Korea, 58
Kossova, 21 battle of, 27, 33
Kustendil, 168
Kustendjix, 5
Lazar, King of Serbia, 27
Levant, the, 4, 5
Liberation, progress since the, 165
Lithuania, 5
Lombards, 8, 11
London Morning Post, 54, 100
"Lord Salisbury's principle," 93
Lule Burgas, 68 battle of, 72
Macedonia, 44, 74 atrocities in, 51, 52, 53 Empire of, 6 massacres in, 51, 89
Marcianople. See Schumla
Mariano Bolizza, 36
Maritza River, 90
Marmora, Sea of, 62, 120, 150
"Mass at St. Sofia," 146
Massacre, the national sport, 177
Medicinal springs, 153
Mediterranean littoral, 2 Sea, 4
Michael, Czar of Bulgaria, 15
Michael the Brave, of Roumania, 30
Midhat Pasha, 169, 170
Midia, 88
Military attachés, 105, 107
Milosh Obrenovic of Serbia, 38
Mineral resources in Serbia, 172
Minoan civilisation, 2
Moesia, 3
Mohammedanism, 24
Moldavia, 13, 29, 38
Montenegrin character, 173, 193 printing press, 35, 36 resistance of Turks, 34, 35 war with Austria, 35 war with Turkey, 35
Montenegro, 17, 28, 32, 33, 37, 46 government of, 33
Morning Post, the. See London
Mount Athos, monastery of, 16
Music, national, 163
Napoleon, 17, 34
Napoleonic strategy, 113 wars, 32
Near East, the, 107
Near Eastern character, 78
Neytchef, Dr., 131
Nicolaieff, General, 42
Niemen River, 5
Nikolitch, M., 198, 204
Nish, 43, 125, 126
Nordic tribes, 4
Norman knights, 13
Normans, 4
Northern invasions, 13 peoples, 2
North Sea, 4
Nova Sagora, 135
Novi-Bazar, 46
Odessa, 5
Odessos, 5
Olbia, 5
Old Serbia, 74
Oriental Express, 156
Ostrogoths, 7
Ottoman. See Turks
Ox wagons, 130, 131
Patriarchate Christians, 177
Peace Conference. See under Balkan
Peace of Bucharest, 88
Peace of London, 85, 88
Persians, 11
Peter the Great of Russia, 34
Petrovic, George, 29, 37
Philip of Macedon, 6
Philippopolis, 8, 44 capture of, 20
Phillip, Roman Emperor, 8
Pig-raising, 171
Pirot, 43
Plevna, 41, 46
Pomaks, 22
Prehistoric state, 2
Press influence, 83, 84
Protective tariff, 171
Punch cartoon, 54
Religious proselytising, 30
Rhodopes, the, 151, 152, 158
Roads, 167
Roman Church, 16 civilisation, 8 Empire, 1, 2, 89, 168
Roman Empire, decline of, 7 fall of, 8 traditions, 164
Romans, 4, 7
Rose cultivation, 169
Roumania, 7, 13, 22, 29, 37 Greek governors in, 31 an independent principality, 32 King of, 48, 49 liberation of, 30, 31 Russian garrison in, 32 subjugation of, 2 a Turkish province, 29
Roumanian character, 191, 192 diplomacy, 92 independence, 38 war correspondents, 105 women, 160
Roumanians, 3
Runes, 5
Russian ambitions in the Balkans, 44, 45, 49 garrison in Roumania, 32 hospital at Kirk Kilisse, 143 intrigue in Bulgaria, 48 liberators of Bulgaria, 25 Power, 31 war correspondents, 99
Russo-Japanese War, effect of, 50
Russo-Roumanian alliance, 31
Russo-Turkish War of 1828, 32 of 1877, 41, 43, 170
Salonica, 46, 62, 76, 79
Sanitary arrangements, absence of, 140, 141, 142
Saracens, 4, 12, 20
Savoff, General, 117, 202
Schumla, 8
Scutari, 74, 75
Scythia, 5, 8, 9
Seaside resorts, 150, 151
Sebastopol, 5
Seleniki, 129
Semitic invasions, 4
Serbia, 15, 17, 26, 37 as a European Power, 16 local government in, 172 Turkish garrisons withdrawn, 38 a Turkish province, 27
Serbian character, 186-188 contest for liberty, 38 diplomacy, 93 emigration to Austria, 28 Empire, 33 Empire, fall of, 27 forests, 172 Highlanders, 33 increase of territory, 46 liberation, 37 mineral resources, 172 mountains, 151 trade, Austria and, 125 women, 172
Serbians, 3, 4, 9
Serbo-Hungarian Alliance, 27
Servians. See Serbians
Shipka Pass, 42, 129
Silistria, 168
Simeon of Bulgaria, 163
Slav traditions, 164
Slavs, 3, 4
Slivnitza, battle of, 48
Sofia, 61, 145 the Military College, 42
Southern Slav Art Exhibition, 165
Stambouloff, 48 assassination of, 49
Stara Zagora, 42
Stephen Dushan, King of Serbia, 16, 17, 26, 162
Stephen the Great, of Moldavia, 30
Sweden, 6, 9
Switzerland, 58
Tapestries, 164
Tartars, 4, 11, 13
Tchobanoff, Lieutenant-Colonel, 131
Tchorlu, 42
Tchundra River, 90
Teutonic knights, 13
Theodore Komnenus, Czar of Greece, 14
Thessaly, 2
Thrace, 2, 8, 44, 51 an autonomous, 80
Thracian campaign, 54 plain, 154
Thraco-Dacians, 3
Thraco-Illyrians, 3
Thraco-Macedonians, 3
Tirnova, 44 Church of the Forty Martyrs, 14
Tobacco cultivation, 168
Tourist possibilities, 151, 152
Trade, Early, 5
Trajan, 7
Transylvania, 30
Travel facilities, 155-158 risks, 161
Treaty of Adrianople (1830), 44
Treaty of Berlin, 38, 45, 46
Treaty of Bucharest (1913), 17, 171
Treaty of London, 174
Treaty of Paris (1856), 32, 38, 39
Treaty of San Stefano, 43, 44, 46, 47, 50
Trenches, 145
Triple Alliance, the, 50
Turco-Russian wars, 107
Turkey-in-Europe, 61
Turkish Army, 106 atrocities, 19, 26, 29, 31, 52 character, 181-186 corruption, 61 cruelty, 185 delegates at the Conference, 188 domination in Bulgaria, 23, 24, 25 entrenchments, 137 invasion, first, 15 occupation, 17, 20, 158 offer of reform, 56 Power in Europe, decline of, 45 prisoners, 136 procrastination at the Peace Conference, 81, 84 rally, 88 rule in Bulgaria, end of, 26 rule in Serbia, 28 spy incident, 133 tyranny, 24 villages, 138
Turks, 3, 4, 13 before Vienna, 21
Turnu-Severin, 7
Tyras, 5
Unity of Balkans. See Balkan Alliance
Valerius, Emperor, 89
Vandals, 7
Varna, 5
Venetians, 16
Venice 34
Venizuelos, M., 83, 198, 203, 204
Vienna, 109 siege of, 21
Villages, the, 154
Visigoths, 7
Vistula River, 5
Vlad the Impaler, of Wallachia, 30
Volga River, 3
Volgars. See Bulgars
Vranga, 43
Wallachia, 13, 29
Wallachians. See Roumanians
War correspondent, the, 98, 99, 102, 103, 107, 126, 185 advice to, 110 new school, 107, 108, 113 passing of the, 122 a personal record, 116
War of Liberation, 85
Winter sports, 152
Yamboli, 42, 65, 69
Yanina, battle of, 67
Zablack, 35