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If any one had suggested that Monastir was Serb or ever likely to be Serb, folk would have thought him mad or drunk. The pull was between Greek and Bulgar, there was no question of the Serbs. There was a large "Greek" population, both in town and country, but of these a very large proportion were Vlachs, many were South Albanians, others were Slavs. Few probably were genuine Greeks.
Nature itself as it were, seems to have raised the Caucasus between Europe and Asia as a rampart against the tide of national movements; there the arms of Cyrus and of Alexander had formerly found their limit; now the brave garrison of this partition-wall set themselves to defend it also against the Romans. Albanians Conquered by Pompeius Iberians Conquered
In their rush to pick up the money the poor children forgot their orders, and disputed aloud in their mother tongue Albanian, to the amusement of the Commission, which, disgusted by these tricks, drew a frontier which gave the Albanians less than they had hoped for, but very much more than the Greeks had intended.
He has, most likely, another name, but I do not know it." "But why should a Montenegrin seek to raise the enmity of the Albanians against his own people?" Chester demanded. "There is but one reason gold," said Ivan simply. "And his methods?" inquired Colonel Anderson. "More gold," was the reply. "I see," said Colonel Anderson. "Furnished by the Austrians, eh?" "How else?
'It's a pity, I observed, 'that if your Highness find time to march into Syria, you had not acted simultaneously with the Albanians, or with the Pasha of Scutari. 'May I kill my mother but it is true; but up there, they will watch, and watch, and watch, till they fall asleep.
For Sossius, also, had great success, and Canidius, whom he left in Armenia, defeated the people there, and also the kings of the Albanians and Iberians, and marched victorious as far as Caucasus, by which means the fame of Antony's arms had become great among the barbarous nations.
The State, however, was not created for the Albanians, who for the rest, are not in a condition to administer or maintain it. The state was established in the interests of Austria-Hungary and Italy. And those powers are likely to shape its future.
That the Albanians themselves will have an opportunity to develop their own national independence I find it impossible to believe.
The Albanians fought desperately for a short time, but, attacked on both sides, though by forces much inferior in the aggregate to their own, they finally broke in panic.
The Albanians and Armenians, subject to Mohammed Ali, were held by him in severe discipline. He did not allow his soldiers to make thieves and robbers of themselves. He threatened with instant death all who should be caught in the act. They, however, clamored all the more loudly for pay. Mohammed listened to them quietly, and seemed to be touched by their complaints.
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