. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. TLINE OF HISTORY and Constantinople. Originally a Turkish ments of Jews in Poland and Russia.^ Be-people, the Bulgarians, since their first ap- hind the Khazars again, and overrunningpearance in the east of Russia, had become them, were the Petschenegs (or Patzinaks), a by repeated admixture almost entirely Sla-vonic in race and language. For some timeafter their establishment in Bulgaria they re-mained pagan. Their king, Boris (852-884),entertained Moslem envoys, and seems tohave contemplated an adhesion to Islam, but savag
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. TLINE OF HISTORY and Constantinople. Originally a Turkish ments of Jews in Poland and Russia.^ Be-people, the Bulgarians, since their first ap- hind the Khazars again, and overrunningpearance in the east of Russia, had become them, were the Petschenegs (or Patzinaks), a by repeated admixture almost entirely Sla-vonic in race and language. For some timeafter their establishment in Bulgaria they re-mained pagan. Their king, Boris (852-884),entertained Moslem envoys, and seems tohave contemplated an adhesion to Islam, but savage Turkish people who are first heard ofin the ninth century, and who were destinedto dissolve and vanish as the kindred Hunsdid five centuries before. And while thetrend of all these peoples was westward, wehave, when we are thinking of the present finally he married a Byzantine princess, and population of these South Russian regions, to handed himself and his people over to theChristian faith. The Hungarians were drubbed into a cer- ^&z CQ2VfINGy the SELJUKS;;. remember also the coming and going of theNorthmen between the Baltic and the BlackSea, who interwove \^dth the Turkish migrants like warp and woof, andbear in mind also thatthere was a considerableSlavonic population, theheirs and descendants ofScythians, Sarmatians,and the likft, alreadyestablished in these rest-less, lawless, but fertileareas. All these racesmixed with and reactedupon one another. Theuniversal prevalence ofSlavonic languages, ex-cept in Hungary, showsthat the population re-mained predominantlySlav. And in what isnow Roumania, for allthe passage of peoples,and in spite of conquestafter conquest, the tradi-tion and inheritance ofthe Roinan provinces ofDacia and Moesia Inferiorstill kept a Latin speechand memory alive. tain respect for civilization by Henry the But this direct thrust of the Turkish Fowler, the elected King of Germany, and peoples against Christendom to the north ofOtto the First, the fir
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