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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s.— One little part of Serbiaunconquered.— The further conquests of the Turks.— Theattack on Vienna.— John Sobieski to the rescue.— The waningof the Turkish empire.— The Spanish Jews.— The jumble oflanguages and peoples in southeastern Eiirope. In the last chapter, we referred briefly to theGreek empire at Constantinople. This cityof the ^yas oriainally called Byzantium, and was a Roman o .; ^ • i i Empire flourishing Greek commercial center eight hun-dred years before Christ. Ele\en hundredyears after this, a Roman emperor namedConstantine decided that he liked Byzantiumbetter than Rome. Accordingly, he moved thecapital of the empire to the Greek city, andrenamed it Constantinopolis (the word polismeans city in Greek). Before long, we findthe Roman empire divided into two parts,the capital of one at Rome, of the other at Con-stantinople. This eastern government wascontinued by the Greeks nearly one thousandyears after the government of the western The Map of Europe 79
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MOHAMMED II BEFORE CONSTANTINOPLE empire had been seized by the invading Ger-manic tribes. For years, this Greek empire at Constanti-nople had been obhged to fight hard against the Mohammedans who came swarming across ^^^^ ^^*^^ ° wave of the fertile plains of Mesopotamia (meso po ta- Turksmi a) and Asia Minor. (Mesopotamia is thedistrict lying between the Tigris (tfgris) and 80 The Story of Euphrates (u fratez) Rivers. Its name inGreek means between the rivers.) Thefiercest of the Mohammedan tribes, the warUkeOttoman Turks, were the last to arrive. Forseveral years, they thundered at the gates ofConstantinople, while the Greek Empire grewfeebler and feebler. At last in 1453, their great cannon made abreach in the walls, and the Turks pouredthrough. The Greek Empire was a thing of thepast, and all of southeastern Europe lay at themercy of the invading Moslems (another namefor Mohammedans). The Turks did notdrive out the Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbians, andAlbanians, but settled down amo

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