Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly, Macedonia, and Epirus in the Autumn of 1880Blackwood, 1881 - 276 páginas |
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... peasantry kept the victorious armies of the Czar at bay . Now and then the Cossacks made a successful raid into their mountains , carrying fire and sword into the unfortunate villages ; but the Russians , re- pulsed in one or two ...
... peasantry kept the victorious armies of the Czar at bay . Now and then the Cossacks made a successful raid into their mountains , carrying fire and sword into the unfortunate villages ; but the Russians , re- pulsed in one or two ...
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... peasantry , while he was powerless to defend them against the abuses of those in authority . But of late years a great change has come over the attitude of the Turkish bey . Increased taxation , the constant demands of the Government ...
... peasantry , while he was powerless to defend them against the abuses of those in authority . But of late years a great change has come over the attitude of the Turkish bey . Increased taxation , the constant demands of the Government ...
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... peasantry . Then recent political changes , the assertion of the rights of the Christian popula- tions of Turkey , and especially the Greek claim to Thessaly , have induced him gradually to look upon his Greek peasant as an impatient ...
... peasantry . Then recent political changes , the assertion of the rights of the Christian popula- tions of Turkey , and especially the Greek claim to Thessaly , have induced him gradually to look upon his Greek peasant as an impatient ...
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... peasantry is aggravated where the landlord lets out the whole property to a middleman , or multazim , who derives what revenue he can out of it by subletting it . But the multazim's exactions never impoverish him so much as the enforced ...
... peasantry is aggravated where the landlord lets out the whole property to a middleman , or multazim , who derives what revenue he can out of it by subletting it . But the multazim's exactions never impoverish him so much as the enforced ...
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... peasantry and the shep- herd tribes , there is a strong national pride . Among the mountain shepherds there is even a secret fear of annexation to Greece , which the Turkish authorities have not been slow to work upon . Most of them are ...
... peasantry and the shep- herd tribes , there is a strong national pride . Among the mountain shepherds there is even a secret fear of annexation to Greece , which the Turkish authorities have not been slow to work upon . Most of them are ...
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