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
... Balkan Peninsula from the Black Sea to the Adriatic . The despotic system of government in Turkey worked well enough so long as she was a conquering and expanding nation ; but so soon as she ceased to be this , and was hemmed in by ...
... Balkan Peninsula from the Black Sea to the Adriatic . The despotic system of government in Turkey worked well enough so long as she was a conquering and expanding nation ; but so soon as she ceased to be this , and was hemmed in by ...
Página 1875
... Balkan and Armenian Committees , which were wrongly believed by the Sultan and his advisers— and appear still to be believed by all Germans and Austrians - to be the agents in advance of the perfidious English Government , so ...
... Balkan and Armenian Committees , which were wrongly believed by the Sultan and his advisers— and appear still to be believed by all Germans and Austrians - to be the agents in advance of the perfidious English Government , so ...
Página 1876
... Balkan Peninsula would have been more disagreeable to the Christian population than even the domination of the Turk , while it would have been impossible to divide the country among the neighbouring states in such a way as to satisfy ...
... Balkan Peninsula would have been more disagreeable to the Christian population than even the domination of the Turk , while it would have been impossible to divide the country among the neighbouring states in such a way as to satisfy ...
Página 1877
... Balkan Peninsula in order and to prevent them from cutting each other's throats , lopping off each other's ears , and burning each other's priests . The Turks can provide that strong rule ; and if we add to the Turks the Mussulmans of ...
... Balkan Peninsula in order and to prevent them from cutting each other's throats , lopping off each other's ears , and burning each other's priests . The Turks can provide that strong rule ; and if we add to the Turks the Mussulmans of ...
Página 1887
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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 |
The Awakening of Turkey: A History of the Turkish Revolution Edward Frederick Knight Prévia não disponível - 2019 |
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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