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Should Turkey refuse favorable terms, the two empires would divide between them all her European lands except Rumelia and the district of Constantinople. Alexander afterward declared that Napoleon gave a verbal promise that Russia should have a substantial increment on the Danube. The rumor was that Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Bulgaria were indicated to the Czar as his share.
The summers in Egypt, in Syria, and in Asia Minor and even Rumelia, are almost rainless. As fast as the water retires by the subsidence of the annual inundation, the seed is sown upon the still moist, uncovered soil, and irrigation begins at once.
"The Padishah assures thee through me of his grace and favour, and of his own good pleasure appoints thee Beglerbeg of Rumelia." And with that a couple of dülbendars advanced with the costly kaftan of investiture. Halil Patrona reflected for an instant. The Sultan indeed had always been gracious towards him. He evidently wanted to favour him with an honourable way of retreat.
They were destined, however, to spend more than a year between the Danube and the Balkans before they could force their way into Rumelia. During the interval considerable progress was made with the settlement of the Greek question.
The history of his reign is a long record of protests and surrenders to the great in big matters, as to Great Britain in the matter of Egypt in 1881, to Russia in that of Eastern Rumelia in 1885, to France on the question of the Constantinople quays and other claims, and to all the powers in 1881 in the matter of the financial control.
Egypt, Tunisia, Eastern Rumelia, Krete these had all been withdrawn from Ottoman control since the Berlin settlement, and now Macedonia seemed to be going the same way.
The Czar would be omnipotent over it, as indeed he is near to be already, at least on the Continent. Yet, without the conquest of Constantinople, Russia could never carry the idea of Pansclavism: for in European Turkey a vast stock of the Sclavonic race dwells, from Bulgaria over Servia and Bosnia down to Montenegro, and across through Rumelia.
In the otherwise similar climate of Rumelia and of much of Asia Minor, irrigation is indeed practiced, but in a relatively small proportion. In those provinces there is little or no summer rain.
The Powers freed Serbia, giving Turkey first a suzerainty over her, and finally abolishing that: they freed Bulgaria, they freed Greece, Eastern Rumelia, Macedonia, Albania.
Since the exile of Abraham from Ur to Aleppo in Syria produced this result, we must consider what will be the effect of the exile of Bahá’u’lláh in His several removes from Ṭihrán to Baghdád, from thence to Constantinople, to Rumelia and to the Holy Land. See what a perfect Educator Abraham was! Moses was for a long time a shepherd in the wilderness.
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