L'empire de Turquie

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L'empire de Turquie,by Xavier Heuschling,1860:



All the Balkan peoples that were residing in the Ottoman empire and their numbers.There are mentioned Bulgarians,Serbs,Bosnians,Herzegovinians e.t.c,other Slavic branches,Vlachs and Moldovlachs,Albanians,Ottomans of Asiatic origin,Greeks,Armenians,Jews,Gypsies (Bohemians) and Tatars,except the <Macedonians>.



The Slavic race includes the Bulgarians,the Serbs,the Bosnians,the Herzegovinians e.t.c.


<In 980 the Bulgarians established in Macedonia the 2nd Bulgarian kingdom....The Bulgarians inhabit the biggest part of Roumelia and Macedonia...>


Serbs,Bulgarians,Bosnians,Croatians,Herzegovinians and Montenegrins but not any <Macedonians>


The Slavic languages are those of the Serbs,the Bulgarians,the Bosnians and the Herzegovinians


The Herzegovinians and the Montenegrians speak a language almost similar to the Serbian,the Croatians speak a dialect quite different from the Serbian,a few Greeks speak Slavic,a few Bulgarians and less Serbs speak Greek.No one of all the above people speaks something like <Makedonski>


<The biggest part of the Bulgarians and the Greeks in Thrace and Macedonia understand the Turkish language >


In Athos mountain someone can find monks of Greek,Russian,Bulgarian,Serbian and Moldavian origin,but not any <Macedonian> monks.So in these monasteries in Macedonia were monks from all the Orthodox nations except the ...<Makedonski>


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[chicagogeorge]

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