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Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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e the sooner theChristians will care to invest capital in land, or be ableto develope the resources of the country, and open itup to European intercourse. Those who urge that therayah population is as yet unequal even to regulate itsown affairs, must surely be ignorant that, besides immi-grants of the lower orders, Christians from Bosnia andBulgaria at this moment hold places in the senate andministry of free Serbia. Their cousins still at homecan hardly be more unfit to manage their own town ordistrict, than a Stamboul pipe-lighter who does notspeak the language, or an Albanian bravo, changedevery few months. Hitherto the Principality of Serbia has been too in-secure in her own position to afford much assistance toher kindred, even when they have loudly called on her.She has thus drawn on herself the reproach of selfishnessand short-sightedness ; her rulers have been warnedthat their policy would be rewarded like that of StephenLazarevitch, while Serbia would certainly lose her place
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