The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe

After November 17th a period of inactivity set in outside, by the lines of Chatalja, the heavy sound of guns ceased to accompany the daily round of work or pleasure which makes...

Mustapha II defeated by Prince Eugène--The Peace of Carlowitz--Death of Mustapha II--Charles XII of Sweden--More Turkish provinces lost--Mahmoud I--Gazi Hassan--Selim III and th...

The Greeks, ancient and modern--Origin of the modern Greeks--Mohammed the Conqueror and the Greeks--The Greeks under Selim I--The rise of the Phanariot Greeks--The work of the O...

The Eastern Empire--The marriage of Orkhan and Theodora--Solyman crosses the Hellespont--The death of Solyman--Amurath I conquers Adrianople--A crusade against Amurath--Amurath...

Bulgarian origin and history--Defeat of Nicephorus I--Luitprand, the historian--Revolt of Peter and Asan--Sisvan and Amurath--My friend "Dedo 'Mitri"--The road to Radoïl--Vasil...

My fellow-passengers in the boat train to Constanza--The Bosphorus and places of interest by its shores: Kavak and the Genoese castle, forts ancient and modern--Some mention of...

Peoples of the Balkans--The migration of nations--The Illyrians--The Thracians and Scythians--Hippocrates and Galenus--The habits of the Scythians--The origin of the Hellenes--T...

The arrival of the Slavs and their descent--The appearance of the Serbs--Servia, before the arrival of the Serbs--The primitive Serbs--Serbs and Bulgarians in early days--Stephe...

Beyond the walls of Constantinople--The Valley of the Lycus--The siege of Constantinople in 1453--The life of the City at that time--The Genoese ships which fought their way thr...

Islam--And Christianity--Turks and the law of the Prophet--Their relations to the Sultan--Bajazet II and his army--Slavs go over to Islam--The rebellion of Djem--Matthias Corvin...

Turkish literature--Turkish proverbs--The literature of other Tartars--Legend of Turkish descent--The origin of the Turks--The Turks and Giougen--The Turks with the Eastern Empi...

" II. Wit & Imagination of Benjamin Disraeli. " III. Vignettes from Oliver Goldsmith. " IV. Wit & Sagacity of Dr. Johnson. " V. Insight and Imagination of John Ruskin. " VI. Vig...

Religious institutions of old Byzant--The rise of monasticism--The conversion of the Bulgarians by Cyril--The spread of Islam towards Constantinople--The attacks of the Saracens...

The Turkish character--The rise of Turkish power--Earliest days of Turkish history--Conquest of Persia and Egypt--Turkish soldiers of the Caliphate--Samanids' conquests in India...

The modern crusade, and that of Johann Capistran--Christians in the ranks of the Ottoman Army--The religious life of Constantinople--Theodosius I and his creed--St. John Chrysos...

The Empire inherited by Selim--Roxalana's influence--The capture of Cyprus--Amurath III and his brothers--Queen Elizabeth's embassy to the Porte--Corruption in the army--The dea...

The Mosque of St. Sophia and its beauties, and some legends that attach to it--The present state of its courts--The Sea of Marmora and an historical pageant: Genoese, Venetians,...

The defences of Constantinople--Adrianople and its history--The walls of Constantinople and their story--The Marble Tower--Yedi Koulé and the Golden Gate--Tales of Theodosius an...

The everyday aspect of Constantinople--Refugees in the streets--Sick and wounded soldiers in the streets--The Red Crescent over the Museum in the Seraglio--More about Byzas--The...

The high road to the East--Roumania and the Carpathian Mountains--Thracians and Dacians, and how the latter had dealings with Emperor Trajan--The Roumanians, their origin, story...

Towards the end of a dismal summer, when everybody who is anybody in the United Kingdom was departing for their annual holidays, dark clouds began to gather on the political hor...