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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... country imagine, and, as I shall explain later on, the revolution largely owed its success to her brave co-operation. One ought to be able to form some idea of the character of a people from its literature. Turkish literature, the ...
... country imagine, and, as I shall explain later on, the revolution largely owed its success to her brave co-operation. One ought to be able to form some idea of the character of a people from its literature. Turkish literature, the ...
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... country . It must be remembered , too , that the worst atrocities proved against the Turks in Bulgaria were committed not by Turkish regulars but by fanatical Circassians and by the Bashi- Bazouks , ill - disciplined irregulars ...
... country . It must be remembered , too , that the worst atrocities proved against the Turks in Bulgaria were committed not by Turkish regulars but by fanatical Circassians and by the Bashi- Bazouks , ill - disciplined irregulars ...
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... country in the bitter winter weather , weak and listless with hunger and cold , often frost - bitten , hundreds of them failing by the way , so that it was a common thing to see frozen corpses lying by the roadside . The Albanians ...
... country in the bitter winter weather , weak and listless with hunger and cold , often frost - bitten , hundreds of them failing by the way , so that it was a common thing to see frozen corpses lying by the roadside . The Albanians ...
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... country - Albanians , Moslem Bulgarians , Circassians , and others — we have nearly half the total population united by a common religion , as the Christians certainly are not . The Young Turks may now prove that Lord Palmerston , after ...
... country - Albanians , Moslem Bulgarians , Circassians , and others — we have nearly half the total population united by a common religion , as the Christians certainly are not . The Young Turks may now prove that Lord Palmerston , after ...
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... country well . He made the Turkish navy one of the most formidable in Europe ; he organised the army that fought so stubbornly at Plevna ; justice was administered , and the press was free to criticise the Government . But this ...
... country well . He made the Turkish navy one of the most formidable in Europe ; he organised the army that fought so stubbornly at Plevna ; justice was administered , and the press was free to criticise the Government . But this ...
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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