# The Turk and his lost provinces

Author: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71013

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## Summary

The next battle-ground of Europe, like the last, will be the so-called Balkan Peninsula, comprising a group of petty states lying south of Austria-Hungary, bounded on one side by the Adriatic, on the other by the Black Sea, and on the south by the Ægean Sea. It is one of the most primitive, yet one of the first settled sections of Europe, where kings and queens and courts shone resplendent in ermine and jewels when Germany, Great Britain and France were still overrun by barbarians. The earliest inhabitants were the Dacians or Getæ, who had reached a considerable degree of culture when we first hear of them, from Pliny and Herodotus, resisting the invasion of Darius, the Persian, five cent...

## Chapters

- [PART I THE GREAT TURK AND HIS CAPITAL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turk-and-his-lost-provinces-71013/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART V GREECE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turk-and-his-lost-provinces-71013/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART II BULGARIA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turk-and-his-lost-provinces-71013/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART IV BOSNIA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turk-and-his-lost-provinces-71013/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART III SERVIA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turk-and-his-lost-provinces-71013/chapters/3/index.md)