item: #1 of 4 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: #2 of 4 id: 11895 author: Angell, Norman title: Peace Theories and the Balkan War date: None words: 32449 flesch: 58 summary: There may be something to be said for war--for settling a thing by fighting about it instead of by understanding it,--just as there may be something to be said for the ordeal, or the duel, as against trial by evidence, for the rack as a corrective of religious error, for judicial torture as a substitute for cross-examination, for religious wars, for all these things--but the balance of advantage is against them and we have discarded them. (9) If by theories and logic is meant the discussion of and interest in principles, the ideas that govern human relationship, they are the only things that can prevent future wars, just as they were the only things that brought religious wars to an end--a preponderant power imposing peace playing no role therein. keywords: balkan; course; europe; european; fact; force; germany; human; lord; man; matter; means; men; nations; opinion; peace; people; policy; power; right; theories; things; time; turk; war; way cache: 11895.txt plain text: 11895.txt item: #3 of 4 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: #4 of 4 id: 54082 author: Gibbons, Herbert Adams title: The New Map of Europe (1911-1914) The Story of the Recent European Diplomatic Crises and Wars and of Europe's Present Catastrophe date: None words: 107181 flesch: 61 summary: Through allying herself with the Khalif, _Germany would find herself able to strike eventually at the British occupation of India and Egypt, and the French occupation of Algeria and Tunis, not only by joining the interests of Pan-Islamism and Pan-Germanism, but also by winning a place in Morocco opposite Gibraltar, a place in Asia Minor opposite Egypt, and a place in Mesopotamia opposite India_. Without ever giving up their local independence, these renegade Albanians became the most loyal and efficient supporters of Ottoman authority _outside of Albania_. keywords: adrianople; albania; alliance; army; austria; austro; balkan; balkan war; bosnia; britain; british; bulgaria; city; constantinople; constitution; country; crete; day; empire; europe; european; fact; foreign; france; french; general; german; government; greece; greek; hungarian; hungary; international; italy; life; macedonia; military; moment; moslem; national; new; ottoman; ottoman empire; pasha; peace; people; persia; poles; policy; population; position; powers; public; question; race; russia; salonika; sea; servia; servians; south; states; sultan; time; treaty; turkey; turkish; turks; war; way; world; years; young cache: 54082.txt plain text: 54082.txt