Identifier: serbianpeoplethe02lazauoft (find matches)
Title: The Serbian people, their past glory and their destiny
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Stephan Lazar Eugene, Prince, 1864- Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Eleanor Mulda (Calhoun) Princess
Subjects: Serbia
Publisher: New York C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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arters, hand to hand,first on the threshold, then within the walls, in defenceof hearth and home. For the first fifty years theTurks were continually beaten back and held at bay,and in the second half only of that long contestwere they finally able to begin to make progress stepby step. The Turks on coming into possession of the landfound the Servian people battle-worn and broken,and during the first few years of occupation the super-posed Turkish administration, modifying local affairsbut slightly, made a kind of modus vivendi possiblebetween the conqueror and the people. But condi-tions soon became more unbearable, and as time woreon the yoke grew increasingly heavier, until, goadedby their misery, the people, especially in Bosnia, fol-lowed those among their nobles who became Mo-hammedans, or else threw in their lot desperately withothers of their leaders who again and again attemptedto rise in revolt or went over to Hungary. The Ser-vians who moved northward to Hungary were filled
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FALL OF THE SERVIAN STATES 555 with the hope, held before their eyes by the Hun-garian Kings, of uniting forces with the Serviansalready within the Hungarian borders, and operatingfrom there as a new basis of organising a continuedstruggle against the Turks to reconquer their lostfatherland. Among the dynastic families which ruled in thevarious Servian States into which the Empire hadbecome subdivided, none became Mohammedanexcept the Tzrnoyevich of Zeta, one branch of theHerzegovinian Vouktchich Kossatcha, and all but oneof the branches of the family of King Voukashin(who had seceded from the authority of EmperorOurosh). The heirs of the other dynasties en-deavoured in various quarters of Europe to gain helpfor their country, but without success. Some of thesePrinces remained in foreign lands where their namesdied out, others returned to their homes and theirClans. The last of such attempts to persuade agreat European Power to intervene for the revivalof the Servian State occurred in

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