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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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hies of thebig nations.— Their interference and its results.— A newkingdom.— The second war.— The work of diplomacy.—The wrongs and grievances of Bulgaria. Germanys position in Europe was notfavorable to her trade. Her ships, in orderto carry on commerce with the peoples of theMediterranean, had to go a great deal fartherthan those of France or England. As a result, Germanythe Germans had been looking toward Con- ?^^^^^.t^stantinople and southwestern Asia as the part Eastof the world with which their commerce oughtto grow. It was Germanys plan to controlthe Balkan countries and thus have a solid stripof territory, including Germany, Austria, theBalkan states, and Turkey through which hertrade might pass to Asia Minor, Persia, andIndia. The feelings of the Balkan peoples for eachother has already been explained. The Bul-garians hated the Serbians, with whom they hadfought a bloody war in 1885. The Serbiansdespised the Bulgarians. The Albanians had hatreds 191 192 The Story of
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The Map of Europe 193 no love for either nation, while the Greekslooked down on all the others. Montenegroand Serbia were friends, naturally, since theywere inhabited by the same kind of people andhad once been parts of the original kingdom ofSerbia. Bulgaria in 1909 announced to the worldthat she would pay no more tribute to Turkey,and after this was to be counted one of theindependent nations of Europe. The Bui- Bulgariagarians had grown so strong and the Turks p^y^^^jbuteso weak, that Turkey did not dare go to war, to Turkeyso permitted the matter to go unnoticed. Theonly thing on which all the Balkan nations andGreece could agree was their bitter hatred ofthe Turks, who had oppressed and wrongedthem cruelly for the last three hundred and fiftyyears. Russia, always plotting to overthrow Turkey,at last accomplished a wonderful bit of diplo-macy. She encouraged Bulgaria, Serbia, Mon-tenegro, and Greece to forget their old timedisUke of each other, for the time being, anddeclare war j

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