item: #1 of 27 id: 11676 author: Schurman, Jacob Gould title: The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition date: None words: 25068 flesch: 57 summary: During the war of the Balkan Allies against Turkey Servia made one more effort to get to the Adriatic,--this time by way of Albania. On the outbreak of war Greece had declared a blockade of all Turkish ports. keywords: adriatic; albania; allies; army; austria; balkan; balkan war; bulgaria; empire; europe; european; government; greece; greek; hungary; macedonia; montenegro; powers; saloniki; servia; territory; treaty; turkey; war cache: 11676.txt plain text: 11676.txt item: #2 of 27 id: 11716 author: Mitrany, David title: The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey date: None words: 115583 flesch: 50 summary: Osman (Othman), Sultan, Osmanli: _see_ Turkey _and_ Turks. Ostrogoths, the, Otranto, straits of, Otto, Prince, of Bavaria, King of Greece, driven into exile, Ottoman Empire: _see_ Turkey. keywords: adriatic; alexander; army; asia; austria; balkan; bosnia; bulgaria; bulgars; capital; central; century; christian; church; constantinople; country; danube; eastern; emperor; empire; end; europe; european; fact; footnote; foreign; frontier; german; government; greece; greek; hand; history; hungary; independence; influence; king; kingdom; land; life; macedonia; military; modern; montenegro; national; new; north; osmanli; ottoman; peninsula; people; policy; population; position; power; prince; provinces; question; race; relations; roman; rule; rumania; rumanians; russia; sea; serbia; serbs; slavs; south; state; stephen; sultan; territory; time; treaty; turkey; turkish; turks; war; way; western; years cache: 11716.txt plain text: 11716.txt item: #3 of 27 id: 16999 author: Paton, A. A. (Andrew Archibald) title: Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. date: None words: 61118 flesch: 66 summary: The interior of Varna has a very fair bazaar; not covered as in Constantinople and other large towns, but well furnished. The further we walked the nobler appeared the last relic of the dotage of old feudal Servia. keywords: austria; author; belgrade; bosnia; captain; castle; chapter; christian; church; coffee; collector; constantinople; conversation; country; danube; day; empire; english; europe; european; evening; footnote; general; georg; german; good; government; half; hand; head; high; house; interior; kara; khan; language; lasar; man; men; middle; milosh; natchalnik; order; party; pasha; people; period; place; present; prince; river; road; room; rose; round; save; saw; servia; servians; state; think; time; town; turkey; turkish; turks; valley; vienna; view; water; way; white; years cache: 16999.txt plain text: 16999.txt item: #4 of 27 id: 19669 author: Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith) title: Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle date: None words: 98417 flesch: 76 summary: In Montenegro Great Serbia was the talk, and I was shewn crude prints of the heroes of old, on many a cottage wall. My reply, that having visited Montenegro I now proposed seeing other Serb lands, did not please him at all. keywords: albanian; alexander; army; austria; balkan; belgrade; bosnia; british; bulgaria; cetinje; chapter; church; consul; country; danilo; day; days; england; english; essad; europe; fact; fight; foreign; france; french; frontier; good; government; great; greek; hand; house; italy; king; land; left; little; man; means; military; minister; montenegrins; montenegro; moslem; near; news; nikola; officers; order; orthodox; people; petar; place; powers; prince; russia; school; scutari; serbia; serbs; slav; south; state; things; thought; throne; time; town; turkish; turks; war; way; work; years; young cache: 19669.txt plain text: 19669.txt item: #5 of 27 id: 19871 author: Velimirović, Nikolaj title: Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) date: None words: 29746 flesch: 80 summary: Therefore, and because I am speaking before you, brothers and sisters, whose country may be proud not only of a large number of great men of every kind, but of great and famous women as well, I must mention the memorable qualities of the Serbian women in the long fight for Cross and Freedom. Serbian life in peace time is the most eloquent accusation and the mightiest protest against the crime of two great Christian Kaisers. keywords: brother; country; cross; day; death; england; english; freedom; god; good; history; king; life; macedonia; man; men; mother; nation; people; poor; serbia; serbs; sins; spirit; suffering; thou; time; turks; world; years cache: 19871.txt plain text: 19871.txt item: #6 of 27 id: 22257 author: Fox, Frank title: Bulgaria date: None words: 42926 flesch: 66 summary: And this was among the Bulgarians, who some insist are a bloodthirsty, cut-throat race, with no sense of justice or of mercy! CHAPTER VIII INCIDENTS OF BULGARIAN CHARACTER Some further incidents of Bulgarian life gleaned during war-time will illustrate the national characteristics of the people. This introduction, however, will make it plain that, as the result of a direct knowledge of the Balkans, during some months in which I had the opportunity of sharing in Bulgarian peasant life, I came to the admiration I have now for the Bulgarian people in spite of a preliminary prejudice. keywords: adrianople; army; balkan; bulgarian; christian; church; constantinople; country; danube; day; days; emperor; empire; europe; general; good; goths; government; greece; greek; illustration; king; life; men; military; national; pasha; peace; peasant; peninsula; people; position; power; prince; roman; sea; servia; sofia; state; time; treaty; turkey; turkish; turks; war; way; work cache: 22257.txt plain text: 22257.txt item: #7 of 27 id: 30151 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads date: None words: 21 flesch: 95 summary: Please see the Rich Text File (RTF) for the content of this eBook. CROSSROADS*** Copyright (C) 2002, 2009 by Lidija Rangelovska. keywords: crossroads cache: 30151.txt plain text: 30151.txt item: #8 of 27 id: 30678 author: Various title: Supplement to "Punch", 16th December 1914 The Unspeakable Turk date: None words: 906 flesch: 85 summary: The barbarous treatment of Armenia by the Turk compels the intervention of England, France and Russia. I SUPPOSE HE CAN'T BE REFERRING TO OUR ORGANISATION OF THE _TURKISH_ ARMY. keywords: illustration; turk cache: 30678.txt plain text: 30678.txt item: #9 of 27 id: 32129 author: Moore, James M. title: Area Handbook for Albania date: None words: 84882 flesch: 53 summary: Tirana, 1968, pp. 18-19; and Great Britain, Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Division, _Albania_, London, 1945, p. 93. Source: Adapted from Athanas Gegaj and Rexhep Krasniqi, _Albania_, New York, 1964, p. 8. keywords: affairs; aid; albania; albanians; area; assembly; central; class; collective; committee; communist; communist party; control; country; cultural; defense; development; eastern; education; europe; family; farms; forces; foreign; general; government; group; hoxha; increase; independence; industrial; industry; jprs; labor; land; leaders; leks; members; military; n.a; national; new; north; number; official; organization; party; party members; party organizations; peasants; people; percent; period; police; political; population; power; press; production; radio; regime; schools; security; society; soviet; state; structure; system; table; time; tirana; total; trade; training; translations; union; use; war; workers; world; year; yugoslavia cache: 32129.txt plain text: 32129.txt item: #10 of 27 id: 32627 author: Long, Anne K. title: Area Handbook for Bulgaria date: None words: 138135 flesch: 54 summary: Bulgaria, Newspaper Circulation by Frequency of Issue, 1971_ ---------------------------+--------+---------------- Frequency | | Annual of | | Circulation Issue | Number | (in thousands) ---------------------------+--------+---------------- Daily | 13 | 611,900 Two to four times per week | 31 | 108,181 Weekly | 58 | 100,880 Less than once per week | 604 | 16,533 | --- | ------- TOTAL | 706 | 837,494 ---------------------------+--------+---------------- In the early 1970s the style of Bulgarian newspapers remained essentially the same as in the mid-1940s. Libraries in Bulgaria, 1971_ ---------------------+--------------------------------------------- | Number Kind of Library |-----------+--------+----------+------------- | Libraries | Books* | Readers* | Books Lent* ---------------------+-----------+--------+----------+------------- National | 1 | 814 | 25 | 189 Local | 27 | 5,287 | 259 | 4,807 Reading rooms | 4,108 | 20,387 | 1,359 | 20,744 Enterprises and | | | | government offices | 2,110 | 6,532 | 537 | 4,984 Public schools | 3,860 | 9,336 | 772 | 6,653 Universities | 23 | 2,077 | 84 | 1,320 Specialized: | | | | Science | 115 | 1,409 | 29 | 507 Government | 35 | 594 | 16 | 282 Party and public | | | | organizations | 93 | 804 | 39 | 280 Technical | 212 | 864 | 54 | 398 Medical | 60 | 405 | 36 | 361 Theaters | | | | (archives) | 133 | 443 | 6 | 34 Educational | 14 | 152 | 8 | 57 | ------ | ------ keywords: agriculture; annual; area; assembly; average; balkan; bkp; bulgaria; central; children; committee; communist; communist party; congress; constitution; construction; control; council; countries; country; defense; development; eastern; economic; economy; education; europe; european; family; farms; forces; foreign; general; government; group; history; income; increase; individual; industry; institutions; investment; jprs; labor; land; leadership; leva; level; life; macedonia; members; military; ministers; ministry; national; new; number; order; organization; output; party; people; percent; period; policy; political; population; power; press; production; program; public; radio; relations; river; rule; schools; sea; service; social; society; sofia; soviet; soviet union; special; state; state council; structure; students; system; technical; time; tons; total; trade; training; turks; union; units; war; western; work; workers; working; world; years; youth; zhivkov; | n.a; | page; | | cache: 32627.txt plain text: 32627.txt item: #11 of 27 id: 32700 author: Giloane, William title: Area Handbook for Romania date: None words: 120321 flesch: 50 summary: A wide range of official noncommercial or tourist exchange rates is in effect for residents of other communist countries. In common with the folk art of other countries of Eastern Europe, Romanian folk art uses mostly abstract and geometric designs. keywords: activities; addition; affairs; agriculture; areas; assembly; bank; bucharest; ceausescu; central; century; church; collective; committee; communist; communist party; constitution; control; council; countries; country; development; eastern; economic; economy; education; enterprises; europe; farms; forces; foreign; general; german; government; groups; hungarian; individual; industrial; industry; information; investment; jprs; labor; land; law; leaders; level; life; members; military; ministry; national; new; number; official; organization; output; pact; party; pcr; people; percent; period; policy; political; population; power; production; programs; regime; relations; republic; romania; romanians; schools; series; socialist; society; soviet; soviet union; state; system; time; total; trade; training; transylvania; union; war; warsaw; western; work; workers; world; years; youth cache: 32700.txt plain text: 32700.txt item: #12 of 27 id: 35231 author: Reed, Helen Leah title: Serbia: A Sketch date: None words: 20911 flesch: 74 summary: With it, the rest of Eastern Europe might fall, including little Serbia--one of the smallest of all the little principalities. What better could little Serbia wish than to market her goods to him, or at least send them over routes he had picked out? keywords: army; austria; century; church; country; day; days; death; karageorges; king; life; marko; men; milosh; people; prince; russia; serbia; serbians; serbs; stephen; things; time; turks; war; women; world; years cache: 35231.txt plain text: 35231.txt item: #13 of 27 id: 36192 author: Schurman, Jacob Gould title: The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Second Edition date: None words: 23380 flesch: 57 summary: And if Bulgaria had not precipitated a war among the Allies, if she had been content with annexing the portion of European Turkey which she held under military occupation, New Bulgaria would have contained a greater area and a larger population than Roumania. Her primary object was the liberation of the Bulgarians in Macedonia and their incorporation in a Great Bulgaria. keywords: albania; allies; army; austria; balkan; bulgaria; empire; europe; european; government; greece; greek; king; macedonia; population; powers; servia; states; territory; treaty; turkey; turks; war cache: 36192.txt plain text: 36192.txt item: #14 of 27 id: 37475 author: Van Millingen, Julius R. title: Peeps at Many Lands: Turkey date: None words: 22649 flesch: 66 summary: But sometimes the ladies are more enterprising; a picnic to some distant part is decided upon, and _arabas_, or carts, drawn by oxen or buffaloes, are engaged. On the cover_ Sketch-Map of Turkey _page iv_ [Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF TURKEY.] keywords: armenian; black; bosphorus; boys; bridge; chapter; children; church; constantinople; country; day; dogs; dress; empire; feet; girls; god; great; greek; hand; head; house; illustration; jews; life; new; people; red; round; sea; street; sultan; time; turkey; turkish; turks; water; way; women cache: 37475.txt plain text: 37475.txt item: #15 of 27 id: 37889 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 80202 flesch: 62 summary: It was not necessary, surrounded by such magnificent scenery, to draw upon historical recollections for the sake of giving interest to the road; still it did not diminish that interest to know that, many centuries ago, great cities stood here, whose sites are now desolate or occupied as the miserable gathering-places of a starving population. But high above the ruins of the modern city towers the Acropolis, holding up to the skies the ruined temples of other days, and proclaiming what Athens was. keywords: american; appearance; athens; black; city; coffee; corinth; country; day; days; door; evening; eyes; feet; friend; good; great; greece; greek; ground; half; hands; having; head; hill; home; hotel; hour; house; interest; island; land; left; life; man; men; morning; mountain; new; night; o'clock; people; place; plain; road; room; ruins; scene; sea; smyrna; streets; temple; things; time; turkish; turks; walls; way; women; world; years; young cache: 37889.txt plain text: 37889.txt item: #16 of 27 id: 37947 author: Stephens, John L. title: Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 82717 flesch: 58 summary: I have seen great cities desolate and in ruins, magnificent temples buried in the sands of the African desert, and places once teeming with fertility now lying waste and silent; but no monument of fallen greatness ever affected me more than this. Victor, with eight or ten thousand men, covered the retreat over the bridges, while behind his line thousands of stragglers, old men, women, and children, were wandering by the side of this river like the fabled spectres which throng the banks of the infernal Styx, seeking in vain for passage. keywords: army; battle; beautiful; church; city; companion; country; day; days; door; emperor; english; europe; eyes; feet; french; friend; gold; good; government; great; ground; hand; head; home; horses; hotel; journey; lady; left; life; looking; man; men; moment; morning; moscow; new; night; noble; o'clock; opposite; passport; people; petersburgh; place; poland; poles; polish; principal; return; road; room; russian; soldier; square; streets; time; town; traveller; trees; walls; warsaw; way cache: 37947.txt plain text: 37947.txt item: #17 of 27 id: 39684 author: Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick) title: Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel date: None words: 73270 flesch: 82 summary: Dalmatian _cuisine_--The Emperor Diocletian--Remains of the old palace--We make two friends--Wines of Dalmatia--Customs of the Morlaks--A visit to Salona--A great fête--Costumes-- Morlak singing 28 CHAPTER IV. Voyage to Cattaro--A bora--The gulf of Narenta--The Herzegovina --The Island of Curzola--Ragusa--The Bocche di Cattan--The frontier of Montenegro--The fortress of Cattaro--Evening promenade--Personal attractions of the Cattarine ladies-- Rough roads--Prince Nikita's coach--Bosnian refugees--A Bosnian's luggage 45 CHAPTER V. March to Cettinje--The pass across the frontier--Montenegrin warriors--Cettinje--A land of stones--The Prince's Hotel-- Frontier disputes--The commission--Montenegrin method of making war--A game of billiards--A Draconic law--A popular prince 60 CHAPTER VI. The occupation of a Montenegrin gentleman--The public library --Prince Nikita's prisoners--Albanian _versus_ keywords: 8vo; albania; arms; arnaut; austrian; author; black; cattaro; chapter; christian; cloth; coffee; country; crown; crown 8vo; day; days; demy; edges; edition; england; english; europe; extra; feet; fire; friend; frontier; good; government; gussinje; half; hand; head; house; illustrations; jones; journey; lake; left; life; like; man; marco; men; montenegrin; morning; mountains; new; night; page; people; place; post; prince; robinson; round; scutari; time; town; turkish; vols; war; water; way; wild; work; years; | |; | ||; || | cache: 39684.txt plain text: 39684.txt item: #18 of 27 id: 41499 author: Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith) title: Through the Land of the Serb date: None words: 98463 flesch: 80 summary: If the customers were of lowly standing, they were invited in to see me; if, on the contrary, they were great men, Montenegrin captains for instance, Monsieur asked me if I would be so good as to step out and speak to them. It is blessed with good men at the head of affairs. keywords: albanian; archimandrite; black; cetinje; christian; church; come; country; dark; day; days; dead; door; england; english; europe; eyes; fact; friends; frontier; god; good; half; hands; head; high; house; idea; inn; lady; land; left; life; look; man; men; mohammedan; monastery; montenegrin; morning; mountain; night; passport; people; place; podgoritza; poor; radovan; rain; river; road; room; round; servia; skodra; tell; things; thought; time; town; turkish; turks; valley; water; way; white; wild; women; work; world; yakoub; years cache: 41499.txt plain text: 41499.txt item: #19 of 27 id: 42204 author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title: Our Little Turkish Cousin date: None words: 18324 flesch: 91 summary: SCHOOL MAMMA, mamma, I am so glad it has come at last! said little Osman, early one bright spring morning. But little Osman knows nothing of what is said about the Sultan and the people of his land. keywords: boy; children; city; cousin; day; father; friends; good; home; house; mother; osman; papa; people; selim; story; sultan; things; time cache: 42204.txt plain text: 42204.txt item: #20 of 27 id: 43637 author: Winlow, Clara Vostrovsky title: Our Little Roumanian Cousin date: None words: 20951 flesch: 82 summary: Once upon a time there was a man who knew little children and the kind of stories they liked, so he wrote four books of Sandman's stories, all about the farm or the sea, and the brig _ Herald._ =TEDDY AND CARROTS=; OR, TWO MERCHANTS OF NEWSPAPER ROW. keywords: 12mo; air; big; book; boys; chapter; cloth; country; day; good; home; jonitza; life; man; maritza; mother; mrs; new; nicolaia; popescu; roumania; series; stories; story; time; volume; way cache: 43637.txt plain text: 43637.txt item: #21 of 27 id: 45976 author: Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania title: My Country date: None words: 16157 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: STRANGE OLD CROSSES THAT ON ALL ROADS I HAVE COME UPON (p. 33).] Taking me by the arm, the Father Superior would solemnly lead me towards the gaily decorated church, whilst many little children would throw flowers before me as I passed. keywords: away; church; country; crosses; earth; eyes; half; heads; illustration; look; mountain; place; rest; road; round; sun; time; white cache: 45976.txt plain text: 45976.txt item: #22 of 27 id: 46235 author: Baker, B. Granville (Bernard Granville) title: The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe date: None words: 96960 flesch: 66 summary: He died at four o'clock in the afternoon of November 26th, and with him passed away one of the greatest of many great men who have held the high office of Patriarch here in the City of Constantine. With a Frontispiece in Photogravure, Four Plates in Colour, and many other Illustrations. keywords: 8vo; adrianople; amurath; army; asia; bajazet; balkan; battle; bulgaria; capital; centuries; century; chatalja; christian; church; city; cloth; conqueror; constantine; constantinople; country; crown; day; days; death; east; eastern; emperor; empire; end; europe; european; gate; golden; great; greek; high; history; iii; illustrations; islam; king; leather; left; life; lines; little; macedonia; men; mohammed; mosque; nations; nett; new; order; othman; ottoman; people; place; porte; power; prince; race; reign; road; roman; roumania; royal; sea; selim; serbs; servia; set; sewed; soldiers; solyman; son; state; sultan; super; sword; theodosius; time; troops; turkey; turkish; turks; walls; war; way; western; work; world; years cache: 46235.txt plain text: 46235.txt item: #23 of 27 id: 46353 author: Baker, B. Granville (Bernard Granville) title: The Walls of Constantinople date: None words: 55615 flesch: 67 summary: But of his walls nothing is left--the city grew and prospered, the Oracle said it would, so the matter was in a sense already settled, and new walls were thrown out further until Imperial Byzantium, like Imperial Rome, stood on seven hills. He will pass many fair historic cities, Vienna, Budapesth, Belgrade, the White Fortress, and so on through the Iron Gates, whence the great stream swells with increasing volume through the plains of Eastern Europe to throw out many arms to the Black Sea. keywords: artist; asia; byzas; century; christian; church; city; city walls; constantine; constantinople; day; days; death; doubt; eastern; emperor; empire; europe; gate; golden; greek; hand; high; history; horn; imperial; john; justinian; land; left; life; mahomed; marmora; men; palace; people; point; race; reign; roman; rome; sea; seraglio; son; sultan; theodosius; throne; time; tower; troops; turks; walls; war; way; western; years cache: 46353.txt plain text: 46353.txt item: #24 of 27 id: 48427 author: Davis, Leslie A. title: Supplement to Commerce Reports Daily Consular and Trade Reports: Turkey, Harput date: None words: 4931 flesch: 71 summary: Aus., Bel., Neth., U. K. Handkerchiefs | 10,000 | 2,200 | U. K., Aus., Ger. Prints | 13,000 | 35,000 | U. K., It., --------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------ Arms and ammunition | $4.000 | $1,000 | Bel., U. S., Ger., Fr., keywords: articles; aus; district; ger; goods; | | cache: 48427.txt plain text: 48427.txt item: #25 of 27 id: 48737 author: Hope, Andrée title: Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes date: None words: 58088 flesch: 68 summary: The climate also is favourable, though the winters are cold, snow sometimes lying on the ground for many days. From the Sultan to the meanest and poorest of his subjects, whenever a holiday occurs, all hasten to enjoy the luxury of fresh air and the soft green sward, there to while away the few hours (perhaps in both cases) hardly wrung from many days of weary and exhausting toil. keywords: air; beauty; black; chapter; children; constantinople; country; dark; day; days; english; eyes; flowers; friends; gold; good; half; head; home; hours; house; kind; ladies; land; left; life; like; looking; man; mountains; night; pasha; people; place; room; round; russian; sea; sevastopol; shore; sultan; summer; time; town; trees; turkish; walls; war; water; way; white; wind; women; yacht; years cache: 48737.txt plain text: 48737.txt item: #26 of 27 id: 54757 author: Oscanyan, C. (Christopher) title: The Sultan and His People date: None words: 83999 flesch: 56 summary: Many of the pashas and other men of wealth, possess chibouks to the value of $50,000, ranging from $10 upwards. These persons are to be found in the court-yards of the mosques, in shops and kahvés near the Porte, and in many other places. keywords: allah; armenians; body; chapter; children; christian; city; civilization; coffee; community; condition; constantinople; country; course; day; days; east; empire; etc; european; faith; family; father; feet; foreign; form; general; god; good; government; grand; greeks; hand; harem; head; holy; house; human; koran; ladies; life; majesty; man; means; mecca; mohammed; mussulmans; nation; nature; new; number; order; oriental; osmanlis; pasha; people; person; pipe; place; power; presence; present; prophet; public; rank; religion; royal; self; spirit; state; style; subjects; sultan; time; tobacco; turkey; turkish; turks; war; water; way; wealth; women; world; years cache: 54757.txt plain text: 54757.txt item: #27 of 27 id: 56023 author: Malden, Henry Elliot title: Vienna 1683 The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine date: None words: 24544 flesch: 68 summary: Then the tide of Turkish power touched its farthest limit, but the fear of its return was not destroyed till after the lapse of one hundred and fifty years. It is a striking estimate of Turkish power, but not beyond what experience confirmed. keywords: army; austria; battle; camp; christian; city; country; danube; day; emperor; empire; enemy; europe; france; french; hungary; king; left; lorraine; louis; men; poland; poles; polish; power; sobieski; time; troops; turks; victory; vienna; vizier; war cache: 56023.txt plain text: 56023.txt