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CHAPTER

CONTENTS

I. THE EPOCHS OF BALKAN HISTORY..

** II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY...

III. THE GREEK AND ROMAN EPOCHS OF BALKAN HISTORY.....

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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THE BYZANTINE EPOCH

IV. THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN

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V. THE SLAV AND MONGOLIAN INVASIONS. NEW PERSIAN WARS

AND THE RESCUE OF THE EMPIRE BY HERACLIUS..

VII. THE COMING OF THE ARABS AND THE RESCUE OF THE

EMPIRE BY LEO THE ISAURIAN

79

VIII. THE COMING OF THE BULGARS. THE CREATION OF THE

BULGAR STATE AND ITS GREATNESS UNDER BORIS AND

SIMEON......

92

IX. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AT ITS HEIGHT UNDER THE

BASILIAN DYNASTY (867-1056)

X. THE DECLINE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND ITS OVER-

THROW BY THE FOURTH CRUSADE

XIII. THE SECOND CENTURY OF THE OTTOMANS: THE CONQUEST OF

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE OTTOMAN

EMPIRE IN EUROPE.

191

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XVIII. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLU-

TION AND OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE....

BIBLIOGRAPHY...

275

287

THE EPOCH OF LIBERATION

XIX. A SURVEY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AT THE BEGINNING OF

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY..

293

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XX. THE SERB REVOLT AND THE FOUNDING OF THE SERB STATE..

XXI. THE REVOLT OF THE GREEKS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE

GREEK STATE.....

309

XXII. CONTINUED DECAY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. FIRST ATTEMPTS

AT REFORM. THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854-1856)....

XXIII. THE AFFAIRS OF MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA AND THE FOUND-

ING OF THE RUMANIAN STATE..

327

345

366

XXIV. BETWEEN TWO WARS: BALKAN DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE

TREATY OF PARIS TO THE TURCO-RUSSIAN WAR (1877)..... 380

XXV. THE TURCO-RUSSIAN WAR (1877) AND THE CONGRESS OF

BERLIN (1878)..

393

XXVI. THE MAKING OF BULGARIA.

407

XXVII. SULTAN ABDUL HAMID. NEW PHASES OF OTTOMAN DECAY:

ARMENIA, CRETE, MACEDONIA.

420

XXVIII. NEW PHASES OF EUROPEAN POLICY. THE BAGDAD Railroad.

THE TURKISH REVOLUTION OF 1908....

XXIX. THE ANNEXATION OF BOSNIA AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS of

1908. DOMESTIC POLICY OF THE YOUNG TURKS. THE

438

455

REVOLT OF ALBANIA.

XXX. NEW OTTOMAN WARS: (1) THE WAR WITH ITALY (1911);

(2) FIRST BALKAN WAR (1912); (3) SECOND BALKAN

WAR (1913)...

XXXI. THE GREAT WAR AND THE BALKAN PENINSULA.

467

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XXXII. THE PEACE AND AFTER.

500

CONCLUSION. THE BALKAN PENINSULA AND THE NEAR EAST: THE

NEWEST PHASE OF AN ANCIENT PROBLEM

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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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