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From : minottauruss
Added: Jul 2, 2009
"Funeral procession at Monastir of six greek antartes killed by the Turkish troops" The photo is from the book "Pictures from the Balkans" from Sir John Foster Fraser (1906) ""The town of Monastir, capital of the vilayet of Monsastir, lies just about half way between Bulgarian and Greek territory. North, the majority of Macedonians are Bulgar, south the majority are Hellenes. The villages meet, cross, and mix in the Monastir vilayet. The reason, therefore, we hear so much about disturbances at Monastir is not because the Turks there are more wicked than Turks elsewhere, but because there is a persistent feud between Greek and Bulgarian political religionists. .. Monastir is an undistinguished, motley sort of town of some 60,000 nhabitants, 14,000 of them Greek, 10,000 of them Bulgarian, four or five thousand Albanian, two or three thousand Jew, and the rest Turk."" Pictures From The Balkans by John Foster Fraser (published in 1906), chapter 20.
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