rilolo by I'lcdciick Moore 

 SLAV PEASANTS OF BOSNIA IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAxN EMPIRE 



nelles, they gave evidence of a desire to 

 keep out of the high poHtics of Europe. 

 By occupying the coveted city of Con- 

 stantinople and the Dardanelles — that is 

 to say, all of European Turkey — the Bul- 

 garians would at once enter the sphere 

 of politics which causes the Great Pow- 

 ers to form into two balancing groups in 

 order to maintain the peace of Europe. 

 The Bulgarians seem, curiouslv, to have 



little ambition to hold the city, which, as 

 one of their leading statesmen first 

 pointed out to me, has caused the ruin 

 and downfall of every empire that has 

 possessed it. 



The lUilgarians, unlike the Greeks, 

 are not dreamers and have no imperial 

 aspirations. They are very hard-headed, 

 as every student who has written of 

 them has declared. Even more than the 



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