item: #1 of 7 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: action; adrianople; adriatic; aegean; albania; alliance; allies; annexation; armies; army; athens; attitude; austria; austro; balkan; balkan allies; balkan nations; balkan states; balkan war; berlin; black; bosnia; boundary; bukarest; bulgaria; bulgarian government; capital; cause; central; central macedonia; centuries; century; christian; churches; cities; city; claim; coast; common; compensation; conditions; conference; conquered; constantine; constantinople; country; course; cretan; crete; czar; danube; day; dual; eastern; ecclesiastical; empire; enemy; epirus; europe; european; european turkey; event; expansion; extension; fact; ferdinand; forces; foreign; frontier; future; general; german; good; government; great; great powers; greece; greek; greek army; greek government; hand; herzegovina; history; hungarian; hungary; independent; influence; inhabitants; interests; islands; italy; june; king; kingdom; language; large; later; lay; left; line; little; long; macedonia; marked; mesta; miles; military; minister; monarchy; monastir; montenegro; moslem; national; nations; neutrality; new; new greece; new servia; north; northern; object; occupation; ochrida; ottoman; party; patriarch; peace; peninsula; people; point; policy; political; population; porte; position; possession; powers; present; prime; prince; programme; propaganda; provinces; question; racial; result; river; roumania; rule; russia; saloniki; schools; sea; second; second balkan; serb; servia; servians; situation; slav; south; spirit; states; subjects; sultan; terms; territorial; territory; thrace; time; treaty; troops; turkey; turkish; turks; venizelos; victorious; victory; war; war greece; wars; way; won; world; years cache: 11676.txt plain text: 11676.txt item: #2 of 7 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: a.d; abdul; able; accession; account; action; active; activity; administration; adrianople; adriatic; advance; aegean; affairs; affected; agreement; albania; albanians; alexander; alliance; allies; ambitions; anarchy; anatolian; ancient; annexation; april; arab; area; armies; arms; army; arrival; asen; asia; asiatic; aspirations; assembly; assistance; assured; athens; attack; attempt; attention; attitude; august; austria; austrians; authority; autonomous; autonomy; autumn; avars; bad; balance; balkan; balkan peninsula; balkan war; basil; battle; bay; beginning; belgrade; berlin; bessarabia; best; better; beys; bishop; bismarck; black; blood; blow; body; boris; bosnia; bound; boundaries; boyards; break; britain; british; brother; bucarest; budapest; bulgaria; bulgars; byzantine; byzantium; campaign; capable; capital; carol; case; catholic; central; centre; 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union; united; unity; uro[)s; use; valley; vardar; venetian; venezelos; venice; victory; vienna; view; vigorous; villages; violent; vitality; wallachia; walls; war; warfare; wars; way; weak; western; westwards; wife; winter; words; work; world; worse; yannina; years; young cache: 11716.txt plain text: 11716.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 12805 author: Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace) title: The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation date: None words: 52207 flesch: 92 summary: Guess that will give Ivan a chance to get away, said Hal briefly. In response to Hal's question, this huddled figure straightened itself up long enough to make reply. keywords: able; action; advance; afraid; air; albanian; alexis; allies; american; anderson; answer; anthony; arms; army; austrian; battle; better; big; bit; body; bulgarian; bullet; business; car; cavalry; center; chance; chapter; charge; chester; close; colonel; colonel anderson; colonel edwards; coming; command; commander; cossack; course; craft; cry; darkness; day; days; direction; distance; door; dwarf; edwards; ellison; enemy; eyes; face; far; feet; fellow; fighting; figure; fire; foe; french; friends; general; german; giant; girl; glad; gold; good; great; ground; guard; guess; guns; hal; half; hand; hard; head; helen; help; hold; hope; horses; hour; house; ivan; king; lad; large; left; like; likely; line; little; long; look; loud; machine; man; matter; mean; minutes; miss; moment; montenegrin; mountains; muttered; nicolas; nikol; nodded; officer; open; opponent; outside; party; place; plan; pursuers; quarters; question; quick; ready; rear; reason; reply; rest; revolver; right; road; rock; run; save; saw; second; serbian; shot; sir; small; sound; speed; spite; spot; stand; strong; stubbs; sure; surprise; talking; tent; terrible; thought; time; traitor; trees; trenches; troops; trouble; try; turn; voice; way; window; woods; word cache: 12805.txt plain text: 12805.txt item: #4 of 7 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: abdul; able; account; acute; advice; affair; agent; agreement; aid; albanian; alexander; alliance; ammunition; andrijevitza; anglo; annexation; anxious; armed; arms; army; arrest; arrival; artillery; attache; attack; attitude; august; austria; austrians; authorities; aware; bad; balkan; beginning; belgrade; berlin; best; better; bey; big; bishop; black; blood; blow; boat; book; bosnia; break; british; brother; build; bulgaria; bulgars; business; case; catholic; cattaro; century; certain; cetinje; change; chapter; children; christian; christianity; church; churches; claim; clear; close; coast; coffee; combine; command; commission; committee; common; complete; conduct; constantinople; constitution; consul; consulate; control; correct; correspondent; country; course; court; cross; crown; dalmatia; danger; dangerous; danilo; date; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; destruction; details; diary; different; difficulty; diplomatic; district; dog; door; doubtless; draga; durazzo; dushan; dutch; dynasty; early; east; edward; efforts; elbasan; empire; end; enemies; enemy; england; english; enthusiasm; envoy; escape; essad; europe; european; events; evidence; excited; excitement; face; fact; faith; families; family; far; fate; father; favour; ferdinand; fight; fighting; foe; folk; folly; forbidden; force; foreign; france; franz; free; freedom; french; friend; friendly; frontier; furious; future; gain; gang; gendarmerie; general; german; girls; giving; god; gold; good; government; governor; grand; great; great serbia; great war; greece; greek; grey; group; gubernator; guide; guns; half; hand; handed; hard; hatred; head; headmen; heavy; heir; help; herzegovina; high; history; hold; holiday; holy; home; honour; hope; hotel; hours; house; human; hungary; hurried; idea; ignorant; important; independence; influence; information; informed; inhabitants; insurgents; interest; international; intervention; intrigue; introduction; ipek; italian; italy; ivan; journey; june; karageorgevitch; kind; king; king nikola; knowledge; known; koritza; kosovo; krsto; lady; lamb; land; language; large; later; law; laws; leader; leave; left; legation; liberty; life; like; likely; line; little; live; lobatcheff; local; london; long; look; lord; lost; macedonia; mademoiselle; main; making; man; march; marked; mass; matter; means; members; mere; middle; milan; military; milosh; mind; minister; mirko; moment; monastery; monastir; money; montenegrins; montenegro; months; morning; moslem; mountains; movement; murder; nationality; native; near; necessary; new; news; nikita; nikola; note; number; nyegushi; object; obrenovitches; obtain; obvious; occupation; ochrida; october; officers; official; old; open; opinion; opposed; order; orthodox; outside; papers; paris; parliament; party; pasha; pashitch; passport; past; pay; peasants; peninsula; people; persons; petar; petersburg; petrovitches; place; plamenatz; plan; play; pleased; plot; podgoritza; point; police; political; politics; poor; populace; popular; popularity; population; position; possible; post; powers; prepared; press; priest; prince; prince nikola; princess; prisoners; prizren; propaganda; protection; purpose; queen; question; race; radonitch; ragusa; railway; ready; reason; refugees; relations; relief; religion; reply; report; representative; represented; result; return; revolution; rising; rival; rizoff; road; roman; rome; room; round; route; royal; rule; run; russia; russians; russo; safe; salonika; sanjak; sava; save; saying; scheme; school; scutari; second; secretary; seeing; serajevo; serbia; serbs; service; set; short; sir; situation; slav; small; society; sofia; soldiers; son; south; spite; spread; state; stay; stefan; stop; strange; street; strong; struggle; students; subject; success; sultan; summer; support; sure; surprised; tale; talk; telegram; terms; terrible; territory; terror; things; thought; throne; time; tirana; touch; tour; tourists; town; travel; treaty; trial; tribes; tribesmen; troops; trouble; true; truth; tsar; turkey; turkish; turks; unable; union; uskub; usual; vain; valona; vice; victory; vienna; view; village; visit; vladika; voyvoda; vuko; vukotitch; want; war; way; weeks; west; wied; wife; wild; wish; women; wonder; work; world; worse; worth; wounded; yanko; years; young cache: 19669.txt plain text: 19669.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 30902 author: Reynolds, Mack title: Expediter date: None words: 9376 flesch: 81 summary: The knock at the door came in the middle of the night, as Josip Pekic had always thought it would. Josip Pekic sat in the back between the two, wondering just where he was being taken, and, above all, why. keywords: affairs; aleksander; attention; average; broz; commissar; comrade; comrade jankez; country; course; days; democratic; desk; dictatorship; door; drink; expediter; eyes; face; fact; father; fool; growled; hand; head; heavy; industry; internal; jankez; josip; josip pekic; kardelj; knock; ljubo; long; man; matter; men; ministry; months; new; number; party; past; pekic; people; petar; point; police; politicians; position; power; production; project; question; report; republics; right; room; sir; small; son; state; steel; superior; table; telly; things; time; traitor; transbalkania; turn; united; voice; way; west; women; world; wrong; years; young; zagurest; zoran; zoran jankez cache: 30902.txt plain text: 30902.txt item: #6 of 7 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: action; adrianople; adriatic; aegean; albania; alliance; allies; annexation; area; armies; army; athens; attitude; austria; austro; balkan; balkan states; balkan war; berlin; bishops; black; bosnia; boundary; bukarest; bulgaria; byzantine; capital; cause; central; central macedonia; centuries; century; chataldja; christian; churches; city; claim; common; compensation; conference; conquered; constantinople; countries; country; course; cretan; crete; czar; danube; day; division; eastern; ecclesiastical; empire; epirus; established; europe; european; european turkey; event; fighting; forces; frontier; future; general; george; government; great; great powers; greece; greek; hand; history; hungary; independent; influence; inhabitants; interest; islands; italy; june; jurisdiction; king; kingdom; kossovo; language; large; lay; left; line; little; london; long; macedonia; mesta; miles; military; millet; minister; monastir; montenegro; moslem; national; nations; new; north; northern; occupation; ochrida; ottoman; partition; party; patriarch; peace; peninsula; people; point; policy; political; population; portion; position; possession; powers; present; prime; prince; propaganda; question; racial; religion; result; river; roumania; rule; russia; saloniki; schools; sea; second; serbs; servia; servians; set; slav; south; southern; square; states; subjects; sultan; terms; territorial; territory; thrace; time; trade; treaty; troops; turkey; turkish; turks; venizelos; victorious; victory; war; wars; way; won; world; years; young cache: 36192.txt plain text: 36192.txt item: #7 of 7 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: 16s; 4to; 8vo; abdul; able; account; achmet; action; admiral; adrianople; advance; affairs; albanians; alexander; ali; allah; allies; ambitions; amurath; anatoli; ancient; appearance; arabs; armed; armenians; armies; arms; army; art; asia; asiatic; attack; attempt; austria; authorities; b.c; bajazet; balkan; banks; barbarossa; basil; battle; beginning; belgrade; best; bishop; black; blood; blue; body; book; bosnia; bosphorus; box; britain; british; broken; brother; buildings; bulgaria; bulgars; business; busy; byzant; byzantine; byzantium; byzas; caliph; caliphate; campaign; capital; capture; carrying; castle; cathedral; cause; cavalry; central; centuries; century; changes; chapter; charles; chatalja; chief; children; chivalry; christian; christianity; chrysostom; church; churches; citizens; city; civilization; close; cloth; clouds; coast; colour; column; coming; complete; conquered; conquering; 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