Jr'hoto by D. W. Iddings. Copyright by Keybtone View Co. 

 DRIVING GEKSE TO MARKE;T : BULGARIA 



Pasha was rewarded with the governor- 

 ship of Erzeroum, while Achmet Aga, a 

 Pomak chieftain, who put 5,000 peasants 

 to the sword at Batak, received the order 

 of the Mejidieh. 



Russia then came to the rescue of her 

 Httle neighbor, and by the defeat of the 

 Turks in the war of 1877- 1878 obtained 

 for the Bulgarians partial freedom. 



The treaty of San Stefano (March 3, 

 1878), dictated by the victorious Rus- 

 sians at the gates of Constantinople, 



practically realized the aspirations of the 

 Bulgarian nation. The new autonomous 

 Bulgaria which it created extended from 

 the Black Sea to the mountains of Al- 

 bania and from the Danube to the 

 TEgean. It possessed an outlet to the 

 Mediterranean at Kavala, included the 

 districts of Pirot and Vranja, subse- 

 quently attributed to Servia, and com- 

 prised all the regions of European 

 Turkey in which the Bulgarian element 

 predominates except Dobruja, which 



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