The Muslims of Serbian race in Bosnia

THE EASTERN SHORES OF THE ADRIATIC IN 1863.

WITH A VISIT TO MONTENEGRO.

LONDON :
RICHARD BENTLEY,

PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY.

1864.

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The Turks got up the quarrel at Belgrade in order to kill off the Christians. The Servians got it up themselves.
The Turks bombarded the town in a panic. They bombarded it because they had orders from Constantinople. They bombarded it because it’s their
nature to. The Mussulmans of Servian race in Bosnia, a million of men more or less, are the haughtiest and most fanatical of European Moslems. …

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All the Macedonian converts to Muhammedan faith speak Serb language, and have preserved many of the Serb customs

MACEDONIA AND THE MACEDONIAN POPULATION.

The Serb element in the Central and Western Macedonia is mixed with other non-Slav nations — Albanians, Turks, Greeks and Arumuns.

There are also many, and distributed throughout all the countrj-, the so-called Muhadjirs (the emigrants) from Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Hertsegovina and Montenegro. Amongst the Serbs in Macedonia live also former Christians converted to Islam. Those of Kichevo call themselves Apovtsi, and those of Tikvesh call themselves Turks.
All the Macedonian converts to Muhammedan faith speak Serb language, and have preserved many of the Serb customs.

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