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Title: The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Stephan Lazar Eugene, Prince, 1864- Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Eleanor Mulda (Calhoun) Princess
Subjects: Serbia
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nalliance and to sign with the Turks the treaty of Sistova (1791). Theilapsburg Emperor, acting in concert with Prussia and England,induced the Empress Catharine II to make peace with Turkey. Itwas again Poland who paid the piper—first in a readjustment betweenRussia and Prussia in 1793, and again in 1795 when the Polish Re-public ceased to exist and the last vestige of Polish land was annexedby her three neighbours, Austria, Russia, and Prussia. The idea of a partition of the territories of the Balkan Peninsula hascontinued to obsess Europe, a lure to the greed of nations. With the closing hours of the eighteenth century there appeared outof the murky shadow of the French catastrophe the figure of Napoleon,whose advent and exploits overturned for the time or modified the de-signs of conquest and partition which the Great Powers of Europe hadlaid down for themselves, and the hand of destiny, say, Gods will,moved in other ways unforseen reversing the conclusions of humancalculations.
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ex; TURKS BESIEGE VIENNA 585 IN the seventeenth century the period of exhaus-tion and comparative quiescence in Balkanlands, which followed the long-sustained and vainefforts of the Serbs for liberation, was broken, in thesecond half of the century, by the Turko-Austrianstruggles culminating in the siege of Vienna by theOttomans in 1683. The King of Poland, Ian Sobieski, and his armyof Poles came as allies of Austria to the citys relief,and in the great battle of the Kahlenberg savedVienna, thoroughly defeating the Turkish forces andputting them to flight. After the forced cessation ofhostilities during the winter, the Austrian troops wereable to obtain further success, and the Republic ofVenice joined the Holy Alliance against the Turks. Venice, however, had been drained economicallyby her wars in Crete and elsewhere, and was unableto put a Venetian force in the field. For that reasonthe Serene Signory entered into negotiations with thefree Servian Clans of the Brdas, Montenegro, Her

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