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Photograph by D. W. Iddings, © Keystone View Company 



IN JUGO-SLAVIA — THE HUSRE^ BEG MOSQUE AND BAZAAR, SERAJEVO, BOSNIA 



Except the Montenegrins and the Serbians in the larger part of royal Serbia, all the 

 groups which are to compose the nation of Jugo-Slavia have been under the blighting domina- 

 tion of alternating foreign masters since the Middle Ages (see page 485). 



the empire of the Ottoman Turks now em- 

 braces hardly more than Asia Minor. 



No accurate figures exist, but under the 

 scepter of the Sultan are not more than 20,- 

 000,000 people, among whom about three-fifths 

 may be reckoned as Ottoman Turks. Very 

 small, however, is the proportion of original 

 Ottomans, members of the Turkish group of 

 the Ural-Altaian family. 



The harem, constantly replenished by women 

 from every nation, and the continuous acces- 

 sion of Christian and Jewish apostates have 



changed their blood and transformed their 

 Tatar type, The majority of Grand Vizirs 

 and Capoudan Pashas or heads of the navy 

 during their first five hundred years were of 

 Christian or Jewish ancestry. 



The few unmodified Ottomans are, whether 

 pasha or peasant, of stately and dignified pres- 

 ence, conservative, contemptuous of everything 

 foreign. The "young Turks" affect European 

 customs and simulate European ideas, but 

 manifest few of the virtues of the West. The 

 Turk in general is merciless in victory and in 



