Zachary Stoyanoff: Pages From the Autobiography of a Bulgarian Insurgent (Classic Reprint)

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The tenacity with which the Bulgarian retained for centuries the feeling of nationality, in spite of the double yoke to which he was subjected - the Turkish in political, and the Greek in ecclesiastical and educational matters - is astounding, especially when it is borne in mind that little more than fifty years have elapsed since the establishment of the first school in which the Bulgarian language was taught. Evidences of this national feeling are afforded at different times, from the earliest period of the Turkish domination down to the latter half of the nineteenth century, in the appearance of bands which, like the Klephts in Greece, claimed to be working for the national cause, but which were in reality little better than associations of brigands: such at least was the character ascribed to them by the Turkish Government. Possibly the first such bands which were really nationalistic in their aims were those fitted out in Roumania about 1866.

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