Photo by Felix J. Koch 



Se;i.LING LIJMONADE IN ADRIANOPI^U 



classifying" peoples according to their 

 creeds cuts across the division according 

 to race or language. 



We may say that, for the Mohamme- 

 dans, religion is the line of division, as all 

 Moslems (except the Albanians) may not 

 inaccurately be described as Turks ; for 

 the Bulgarians it is the national church, 

 as practically every member of the Bul- 

 garian party is a member of the Ex- 

 archist Church, although, of course, prop- 

 aganda is the basis of the division, as the 

 church is primarily a political -institution 

 (see page iiii) ; for the Greeks it is 

 more a question of party, based on ad- 

 herence to the Greek idea of civilization, 

 and the Greek party contains many 

 members of the other races ; for the Ser- 

 vians and Rumanians it is chiefly na- 

 tionality, for they have no separate 



church like the Bulgarians, and many 

 who are Servians or Rumanians by race 

 do not belong to the Servian or Ruma- 

 nian parties. 



The original inhabitants of Macedonia 

 probably belonged to the great race which 

 we call Thracians, of whom very little is 

 known, while the western part of the 

 peninsula was peopled by Illyrians. De- 

 scendants of the former are said to be 

 the Kutzo-Vlachs, or Rumans, while the 

 latter are represented by the Albanians. 



The Greeks never succeeded in wholly 

 Hellenizing Macedonia, their settlements 

 being limited to the coast towns. 



Then came the Roman conquest. 

 Roads were built, towns were founded 

 in all parts of the country, and military 

 colonies established. The Thracians soon 

 adopted the manners and the language 



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