The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . lumbus to America.)The Moors retreated into Africa, which wastheir former home, but the millions of SpanishJews had no homeland to which to return. Inthe midst of their distress, the Sultan of Turkey,knowing them to be prosperous and well-behaved citizens, invited them to enter hisland. They did so by hundreds of thousands. The descendants of these people are to befound today throughout the Balkan peninsula,though mainly in the large cities. They are sonumerous in Constantinople that four news-papers are published there in the Spani
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . lumbus to America.)The Moors retreated into Africa, which wastheir former home, but the millions of SpanishJews had no homeland to which to return. Inthe midst of their distress, the Sultan of Turkey,knowing them to be prosperous and well-behaved citizens, invited them to enter hisland. They did so by hundreds of thousands. The descendants of these people are to befound today throughout the Balkan peninsula,though mainly in the large cities. They are sonumerous in Constantinople that four news-papers are published there in the Spanishlanguage, but printed in Hebrew city of Salonika, a prosperous seaport of140,000 people, which used to belong to Turkeybut now is part of Greece, has over 50,000 ofthese Jews. They readily learn other tongues,and many of them can talk in four or five lan-guages besides their native Spanish, which theystill use in the family circle. Constantinople (called Stamboul by theTurks) is a polyglot city, that is, a place of many The Map of Europe 85. A SCENE IN SALONIKA languages. Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Jews,Italians are all found mingled together. The main source of trouble in the Balkanpeninsula is that the races and nationalitiesare so jumbled together that it is almostimpossible to say which land should belong to Ainbitionswhich nation. Take the case of Macedonia conflict(the district just northwest of the AegeanSea). It is inhabited largely by Bulgarians,and yet there are so many Greeks and Serbsmixed in with the former that at the close of thelast Balkan war in 1913, Greece and Serbiaboth claimed it as belonging to them becauseof the prevailing nationality of its inhabi-tants! In other words, the Serbians claimedthat the inhabitants of Macedonia were largely 86 The Story of Serbs, the Greeks were positive that its peoplewere largel}^ Greeks, while Bulgaria is veryresentful today because the land was not givento her, on the ground that almost all its inhabi-tant
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