The Balkans
Authors: Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee
Edition: large print
Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008
ISBN 0554240238, 9780554240237
332 pages
We hope we have dealt fairly with all these peoples. Mediaeval history is mostly a record of bloodshedding and cruelty and the Middle Age has been prolonged to our own time in most parts of the Balkans and is not yet over in some parts.
The whole what may be called the trunk of 'massif' 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 Macedonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to Midia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, is prepondereatingly 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 the Slovenes in the extreme north-west, between Trieste and the Save; these 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 north, and the Turks in the south-east, and, to the north, the rumanians. All four of these nationalities are to be found in varying quantities within the limits of the Slav territory roughly outlined above, but great numbers of them are outside it; on the other hand, a therea are considerable number of Serbs living north of the rivers Save and Danube, in Southern Hungary.
The whole what may be called the trunk of 'massif' 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 Macedonia) to the outskirts of Salonika and thence to Midia on the shores of the Black Sea, following the coast of the Aegean Sea some miles inland, is prepondereatingly 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 the Slovenes in the extreme north-west, between Trieste and the Save; these 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 north, and the Turks in the south-east, and, to the north, the rumanians. All four of these nationalities are to be found in varying quantities within the limits of the Slav territory roughly outlined above, but great numbers of them are outside it; on the other hand, a therea are considerable number of Serbs living north of the rivers Save and Danube, in Southern Hungary.
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