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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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eugniss der Anna Comnena verlassen darf,der Vater Samuels begann und er selbst zu Ende brachte, nm die durchdie Seenahe hervorgerufenen Moraste in der Nahe von Ochrid auszu-trocknen. Sie liessen diese Moraste mit einem ganzen System vonKanalen durchziehen, so dass hierdurch das Wasser in den Drin-Flussabfliessen konnte. Ueber diese Kanale waren eine solche Menge vonBriicken geschlagen, dass diese Oertlichkeit den Namen * HundertBriicken erhielt. Anna Comnena xii. (371 der Pariser Ausgabe.) — Geschichte der Serhen und Bulgaren, ii. p. 34. Yon A. Hilferding.Ans dem Russischen. f Accounts of these wars are given both by Finlay and Hilferding ;the latter mentions that one chronicler assumes to give the very Bul-garian words wherein a defeat was announced to the successor of Samuel,his attendants rushing in and crying, Flee, oh, emperor! He says,** Kedren fiihrt, ii. 446, die bulgarischen Worte an. Sic lauten beiihm, *Bezite, 0 Cesar! —Geschichte der Serhen und Bulgaren, vol. ii.p. 92.
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CHAP. Yii.) AISD THE MODERN TUitKISH TO WIST. 71 at length won for Basil II. the grim title of slayer ofthe Bulgarians, but we cannot refrain from telling aquaint love-tale, of which the heroine is Samuelsdaughter, and the hero one of the early Serbian kings.We dwell on this legend the rather because it turns onan incident when Bulgaria, in one of its moments ofstrength, meets the slowly-growing power of its westernsister-state, Serbia, with whose history we shall soonhave to do. The subject of dispute between them, viz.,the cities on the Adriatic, illustrates a point to whichwe must afterwards refer—that the first kinglets ofsouthern Serbia were also rulers of the northern Alba-nians, and that the same state which comprehendedMontenegro, stretched to Alessio and Elbassan.* Czar Samuel had resolved to extend his realm to thesea, so he began by taking Durazzo from its Byzantinegarrison ; but not content herewith he pushed forwardto Dulcigno, a town belonging to the young Serbianking

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