Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . onia, where Bulgars,Serbs, and Greeks are all found, along with Turks. The TEgean islandsand parts of the coast of Asia Minor are also claimed by Greece Macedonia and Thrace, and the Montenegro and Serbian army The firstdefeated the Turkish army sent against them and attacked ^li-t^ ^^Albania. Austria now began to get very nervous lest the Serbians Austriashould establish themselves on the Adriatic. She forbade Serbia ^ Serbiato hold the port of Durazzo. H
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . onia, where Bulgars,Serbs, and Greeks are all found, along with Turks. The TEgean islandsand parts of the coast of Asia Minor are also claimed by Greece Macedonia and Thrace, and the Montenegro and Serbian army The firstdefeated the Turkish army sent against them and attacked ^li-t^ ^^Albania. Austria now began to get very nervous lest the Serbians Austriashould establish themselves on the Adriatic. She forbade Serbia ^ Serbiato hold the port of Durazzo. Had Russia been inclined to sup-port Serbia at that moment the general European war would 700 Medieval and Modern Times probably have broken out at the end of 1912 instead of twoyears later. Serbia, however, backed down. A truce was ar-ranged and representatives of the Balkan States and of Turkeymet in London to see if peace could be arranged. The powersadvised Turkey to give up everything in Europe except Con-stantinople and the region immediately to the west. The YoungTurks decided, however, to fight a little longer, and the war was. Fig. 180. Trees from which War Victims have eatenTHE Bark Most of the atrocities of the Balkan wars are too horrible even to repeat. This grove of trees, on a small island, was stripped of bark by the starving victims imprisoned there without food. Each side seems to have been guilty of cruelty and murder Treaty ofLondon SecondBalkan War,•913 resumed in January. Everything went against them, and in Maypreliminaries of peace were signed in London in which Turkeyturned over Macedonia and Crete ^ to the Balkan allies. But Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece were all jealous of one an-other, and the division of the booty led immediately to Bulgariasturning around to wage war on Greece and Serbia. There wasa month of frightful war (July, 1913) and then the Bulgarians, 1 This island had revolted from Turkey in iqog and raised the Greek flag. Turkey and tlie
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