. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. ed the whole peninsula, except some parts held by Venice, Taking of and the Montenegrin mountaineers. He was recognised as Constant!- . not)l6 superior lord of Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, and much of South Eussia. In the sixteenth century this became an actual rule; IV. P THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE, and many more conquests in Asia and Africa were gathered in to the Ottoma
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. ed the whole peninsula, except some parts held by Venice, Taking of and the Montenegrin mountaineers. He was recognised as Constant!- . not)l6 superior lord of Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, and much of South Eussia. In the sixteenth century this became an actual rule; IV. P THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE, and many more conquests in Asia and Africa were gathered in to the Ottoman empire. Crete was conquered in the middle of the seventeenth century, and in 1676 Podolia was won from Poland. Their defeat at Vienna in 1683 was the commencement of the decline of the power of the Tm-ks. In 1699 the peace of Carlowitz gave all Pelo- ^ ,. , ponnesus to Venice; but it was won back a score of years later ;Decline of ??^ . . Turkish and it was not till the present century that the Greek peninsulapower. ^^^ gradually lost to the Turks. But other losses, already de-tailed, have reduced the population immediately under Turkish dominionto less than five millions, of whom only half are A TURKISH COFFEE HOUSE. The Turks, as Mahometans under an absolute ruler, can never be-come assimilated to the European nations. Like the Russians, they recog-Turkish i^ise Solely official rank. The Grand Vizier or an}- oflticial mayofficialism. j,|gg^ ^^^ frequently has risen, from the lowest Moslem the Sultan may be the son of a slave raised to be a Sultana. Be-sides the Viziers, or ministers, the Sultan is advised by the Divan, orimperial council, and the Sheikh-ul-Islam with the ulemas or interpretersof the Koran. Each province is known as a Vilayet, and has a Vali orruler, removable at the Sultans pleasure. However devoted to Mahometanism, the Turk is primarily a warrior. The Turk 111 proportion as he lose^ this character, he dies or becomes a warrior, effe
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