Ebook: The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey

BULGARIA AND SERBIA I Introductory THE whole of the Balkan peninsula, bounded on the north by the rivers Save and Danube, on the west by the Adriatic, on the east by the Black Sea, and on the south by a very irregular line running from Antivari (on the coast of the Adriatic) and the lake of Scutari in the west, through lakes Okhrida and Prespa (in lVlaccdonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to 11idia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, 1S preponderatingly inhabited by Slavs. These Slavs are the Bulgarians in the east and centre, the Serbs and Croats (or Serbians and Croatians or Serbo-Croats) in the west, and, in the extreme north-livest, between Trieste and Laibach, the Slovenes, which three nationalities compose the southern branch of the Slavonic race. The other inhabitants of the Balkan peninsula are, to the south of the Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the Greeks in the centre and south, and the Turk

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CONTEN'TS; PAGE; BULGARIA AND SERBIA By NEVILL FORBES; I Introductory 9; 2 The Balkan Peninsula in Classical Times, 400 B C-A D 500 12-; 3 The Arrival of the Slavs in the Balkan Peninsula, A D 500-; 650 17; BULGARIA; + The Arrival of the Bulgars in the Balkan Peninsula,; 600-700 23; S The Early Years of Bulgaria and the Introduction of; Christianity, 7°0-893 26; 6 The Rise and Fall of the First Bulgarian Empire, 893-972 31; 7 The Rise and Fall of ? Western Bulgaria' and the Greek; Supremacy, 963-u86 38; 8 The Rise and Fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire, tI86-; 1258 41; 9 The Serbian Supremacy and the Final Collapse, 1258-1393 ~; 10 The Turkish Dominion and the Emancipation, 1393-1878 ~; I I The Aftermath, and Prince Alexander of Battenberg,; 1878-86 S4; 12 The Regeneration under Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-; Coburg, 1886-1908 60; I3