Turkey in Europe

Charles Eliot

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136992414
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: History

First Published in 2004. The papers presented in this book were written at various periods, but have a certain unity as being the result of an attempt to understand what is the real condition of Turkey and how that condition has arisen. The author recognises that an adequate knowledge of any one of the many themes here touched upon can only be obtained by lifelong research; but feels that for the purposes of practical politics it is well to see only one side of a question and act accordingly. This book sets itself apart from non-political writers who often impair the value of their work because they devote themselves to a special subject and unconsciously become partisans.

INDEX

A’a, application of title, 116 note

Abbaside dynasty, 20, 81, 84, 120

Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan, 316

Abd-ul-Hamid II.. Sultan, mosques of, 110; autocratic rule of, 124

Abdul Mejid, palace built by, 92; Christians conciliated by, 291

Abdurrezzak Pasha, 416

Acacius, Patriarch, 204

Adrian II., Pope, 216

Aga, application of title, 116 note

Agathangelus, Patriarch, 254

Agatho, Pope, 207

Agriculture, Turkish fondness for, 92

Aivali, Greek colony at, 283

Alau-’d-din, Sultan, assisted by Ertoghrul, 85; Mevlana at the court of, 183; story of Osman’s present from, 183

Albania—

Despotato of Epirus, 21, 44

Dushan’s lordship over, 44

Geographical situation of, 52

Independence of, after Dushan’s death, 39

Scenery of, 349

Skanderbeg’s rule over, 44–5; history of, from Skanderbeg to Mahmud II., 64–5

Albanian League, 369–70

Albanians—

Arms, right of bearing, possessed by, 69, 349

Bravery of, 22, 44

Dervendji Pasha, office of, held by, 285. 364

Distribution of, 351

Disunion of, 22, 44, 369

Family names, pride in, 114

Feuds of, 299, 357

Greece, in rural parts of, 273; Greeks massacred by, 286–7; share of, in Greek War of Independence, 299

Hospitality of, 328, 360

Illyrians the ancestors of, 22, 350

Individuality of, 22, 271 note, 349

Islam, conversions to, 64, 69, 347, 355, 363–4

Language of, 352, 356, 379–80

Literature of, inconsiderable, 356

Old Servia occupied by, 250

Physical characteristics of, 350

Religion of (see also above,

Islam), 353–5, 363; Catholics protected by Austria, 119,» 355

Albanians—continued

Treachery of, 357

Turkish attitude towards, 393

Turks served by, 347; Turkish attitude towards, 349, 367–9

Unsubdued position of, 44, 141, 353–5

Alexander Couza of Roumania, 64, 255

—— Mavrocordato the Phanariot, 279

Alexandria, Patriarchate of, importance of, 200; curtailment ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Preface to the second edition
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. Before the Turkish Conquest
• II. After the Turkish Conquest
• III. The Turks
• IV. The Turks (continued)
• V. The Turks (continued)
• VI. Mohammedanism
• VII. The Orthodox Church
• VIII. The Greeks
• IX. The Bulgarians and Serbs
• X. The Albanians and Vlaciis
• XI. The Armenians
• XII. 1907
• XIII. The Outlook
• Postscript
• Index