The Awakening of TurkeyPerennial Press, 10 de mar. de 2018 - 314 páginas FROM the land of the Turks-Turkestan in Central Asia-there descended beginning in A.D. 800 a series of hordes and armies which overran and gradually took possession of that portion of South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia once known as Turkey. After five hundred years Mohammed II seized upon Constantinople, and that city became the capital of the Turkish Empire;-for the next two hundred years the dominion spread until it became an immense and important world-power. Then began a period of decline; and vice and prodigality in harem and seraglio brought about disruption and war. Russia saw her opportunity to extend her borders towards the sea-and went on gaining Turkish territory from early in the 18th until the middle of the 19th century when the Crimean war crippled her power in that corner of Europe. But Turkey could not hold the heterogeneous populations of her European provinces. Insurrection after insurrection broke out and one by one she lost many of the more important of them. She became bankrupt and a concert of the European Powers proposed and partially carried out a scheme for her reform. But she proved stubborn and went to war with Russia in 1877-1878; this ended disastrously for her and more territory was lost. |
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Página 1866
... oppression , corruption , and incompetence that characterised their government the Turkish people themselves were held responsible by a large section of public opinion in Western Europe . There is a saying to the effect that a nation ...
... oppression , corruption , and incompetence that characterised their government the Turkish people themselves were held responsible by a large section of public opinion in Western Europe . There is a saying to the effect that a nation ...
Página 1868
... oppressive than the worst of despotisms . Those who know him best also claim that the Turk is hospitable , temperate , devoid of meanness , sincere in his friendships — once he is your friend he is always your friend --and , though his ...
... oppressive than the worst of despotisms . Those who know him best also claim that the Turk is hospitable , temperate , devoid of meanness , sincere in his friendships — once he is your friend he is always your friend --and , though his ...
Página 1873
... oppressed and to be compelled to bear the odium of the cruelty of the oppressor . Their fine qualities were obscured to the world . Their name was a byword for cruelty , violence , and fanaticism . ” In England , if one attempted to ...
... oppressed and to be compelled to bear the odium of the cruelty of the oppressor . Their fine qualities were obscured to the world . Their name was a byword for cruelty , violence , and fanaticism . ” In England , if one attempted to ...
Página 1874
... oppressive despotism than their Christian fellow - subjects , but all the sympathy of our humanitarians has been for the latter , and they had little pity or sympathy to spare for the Mussulman . Of late years the political intriguers ...
... oppressive despotism than their Christian fellow - subjects , but all the sympathy of our humanitarians has been for the latter , and they had little pity or sympathy to spare for the Mussulman . Of late years the political intriguers ...
Página 1875
... oppression of the Christians , but with many plausible inventions . That the Turkish side of the question was so rarely heard was also largely due to the fact that , during the few years preceding the revolution , it became ever more ...
... oppression of the Christians , but with many plausible inventions . That the Turkish side of the question was so rarely heard was also largely due to the fact that , during the few years preceding the revolution , it became ever more ...
Conteúdo
1866 | |
1873 | |
THE SPREAD OF CORRUPTION | 1883 |
THE SPREAD OF EDUCATION | 1892 |
DISCONTENT IN THE ARMY | 1906 |
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE | |
HOW THE REVOLUTION BEGAN | |
THE STANDARD OF REVOLT | |
THE PALACE AND THE GREEKS | |
A BLOODLESS VICTORY | |
THE COMMITTEES ULTIMATUM | |
EUROPEAN ASSISTANCE | |
MUTINOUS PALACE GUARDS | |
A STRONG ARMY NEEDED | |
THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT | |
THE NEW SULTAN | |
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The Awakening of Turkey: A History of the Turkish Revolution Edward Frederick Knight Visualização completa - 1909 |
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Abd-ul-Aziz Abdul Hamid adherents administration Ahmed Riza Albanian appointed Armenian Balkan barracks battalions became Bulgarian Bulgarian bands Camarilla capital cause Christian command Committee of Union Committee's Constantinople Constitution corrupt dangerous Deputies Despotism district elections electors enemies Enver Bey Europe European exile faithful fanatical fatherland fedais foreign friends garrison Government Grand Vizier Greek bands Hamidian régime inhabitants justice Kiamil Pasha leaders Liberal Union liberty lives Macedonia manifesto massacres Midhat Pasha military ministers Monastir Moslem mosques mountains movement Mussulman Mussulman Turks mutiny nation Nazim Niazi Bey Ochrida old régime oppression organisation Osman Pasha Ottoman Empire Palace Paris Parliament patriotic Turks peasants political population Powers propaganda reactionaries realised recognised reform Resna revolution revolutionary rule Salonica secret society sent Sheikh-ul-Islam Shemshi soldiers spies Sultan sympathy things Third Army Corps thousand troops Turkey Turkey's Turkish Union and Progress village vote Yildiz young officers Young Turk party