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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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enback from the Danube and over the Balkans, andhis ancestor sultans had crossed one and bridgedthe otiier before they had passed the Taurus orreached the Euphrates, so completely is Ottomansovereignty part of European history. His realmwas less by some 62,000 square miles and 5,000,-000 population. He had not lost all that Russiaproposed, as a comparison between the bounda-ries of the treaty of San Stefano (1877), betweenRussia and Turkey, and of the treaty of Berlin(1878) shows; but he had lost more than anyancestor in generations, and the loss left hisempire Moslem. Tlie ceded population wasalmost altogether Christian, outside of )3osniaand Herzegovina. Their Moslem inhabitantsstubbornly resisted the Austrian army of occu-pation, as the adjoining map mutely records.Before the work was done, in a little area halfthe size of Pennsylvania, and in its physicalcharacteristics not unlike the central half of thatState, 90,000 tioops had been placed in the field. THE TURKISH SITUATION. 183
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THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TURKEY. (Map showing the alterations proposed by the treaty of San Stefano and modifications made by the treaty of Berlin; alsothe lines of the Austrian advance into Bosnia. The wliole of the shaded portion of the map represents the boundariesproposed by the treaty of San Stefano, tlie darker portions indicating the final changes made by the treaty of Berlin.The boundaries of eastern Rouniania are indicated thus ) Tlie resistance was an earnest of what is oftenforgotten,—the Moslem population of Turkey isbitterly opposed to the European advance or toChristian emancipation. It is fighting to-day inAlbania. It fought the latter almost to the lastman in Crete. It emigrated from the Thessaliandistricts ceded to Greece. Keenly as the Sultan ispersonally disliked by great bodies of his Moslemsubjects, the cause of Moslem authority wouldrally tlie Moslem population of the empire to itsundying support. Many Moslems sincerely con-demned the Armenian massacres, just as A

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