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Updated: May 27, 2025

Numbers of Bektashi dervishes were among them, reverend white-robed men, who prayed me to send a special petition from them to King George, who has so many Moslem subjects. Their rich monasteries especially had been set on and pillaged by the andartis, and Greek fanaticism would, they said, wipe out Bektashism from the land. The place was a hell of misery.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle