The Balkan Peninsula

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Frank Fox. The Balkan Peninsula

The Balkan Peninsula

Table of Contents

PREFACE

THE BALKAN PENINSULA. CHAPTER I

THE VEXED BALKANS

CHAPTER II

THE TURK IN THE BALKANS

CHAPTER III

THE FALL OF THE TURKISH POWER

CHAPTER IV

THE WARS OF 1912-13

CHAPTER V

A CHAPTER IN BALKAN DIPLOMACY

CHAPTER VI

THE TROUBLES OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT IN THE BALKANS

CHAPTER VII

JOTTINGS FROM MY BALKAN TRAVEL BOOK

CHAPTER VIII

THE PICTURESQUE BALKANS

CHAPTER IX

THE BALKAN PEOPLES IN ART AND INDUSTRY

CHAPTER X

THE FUTURE OF THE BALKANS

INDEX

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Frank Fox

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The Huns were, with the exception of the Persians who had vainly attacked the Greek States at an earlier period, the first successful Asiatic invaders of Europe. For a full century they ravaged the Empire, and the Balkan Peninsula felt the chief force of their barbarian rage. By the fifth century the waves of the Hun invasions had died away, leaving distinct traces of the Hunnish race in the Balkans. The Gepidae, the Lombards, and later the Hungarians and the Tartars then took up the task of ravaging the unhappy land which as the chief seat of power of the Greek Empire found itself the first objective of every invader because of that dignity and yet but poorly protected by that power. Constantinople was never taken by these barbarians, but at some periods little else than its walls stood secure against their ravages.

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