The Balkans

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Nevill Forbes. The Balkans

The Balkans

Table of Contents

PREFACE

D.G. HOGARTH

BULGARIA

SERBIA

INDEX. MAPS

BULGARIA AND SERBIA

400 B.C. - A.D. 500

BULGARIA

SERBIA

GREECE

RUMANIA: HER HISTORY AND POLITICS

TURKEY

INDEX

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Arnold Toynbee, David Mitrany, D. G. Hogarth, Nevill Forbes

A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey

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[Illustration: THE BALKAN PENINSULA ETHNOLOGICAL]

Place-names are a good index of the extent and strength of the tide of Slav immigration. All along the coast, from the mouth of the Danube to the head of the Adriatic, the Greek and Roman names have been retained though places have often been given alternative names by the Slavonic settlers. Thrace, especially the south-eastern part, and Albania have the fewest Slavonic place-names. In Macedonia and Lower Moesia (Bulgaria) very few classical names have survived, while in Upper Moesia (Serbia) and the interior of Dalmatia (Bosnia, Hercegovina, and Montenegro) they have entirely disappeared. The Slavs themselves, though their tribal names were known, were until the ninth century usually called collectively S(k)lavini ([Greek: Sklabaenoi]) by the Greeks, and all the inland parts of the peninsula were for long termed by them 'the S(k)lavonias' ([Greek: Sklabiniai]).

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