. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . e them, they speak a neo-Latin language, mixed, however,with a large number of Greek words. In the valleys of the Pindus themajority of the Zinzares are nomad shepherds, and often their vilhiges areabandoned for months. Besides these Zinzares, the Epirot Greeks, the Ser-vians, and the few Ottomans in the large cities, the population of westernTurkey, between the mountains of Bosnia and Greece, is composed of Ghegidesand To
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . e them, they speak a neo-Latin language, mixed, however,with a large number of Greek words. In the valleys of the Pindus themajority of the Zinzares are nomad shepherds, and often their vilhiges areabandoned for months. Besides these Zinzares, the Epirot Greeks, the Ser-vians, and the few Ottomans in the large cities, the population of westernTurkey, between the mountains of Bosnia and Greece, is composed of Ghegidesand Toskides, half barbarians, whose social state has not been altered forthree thousand years. By their customs, their ways of thinking and feeling,the Albanians of our day still represent the Pekusgians of olden time. There is no modern people whose military annals show more astonishingexamples of valour than those of the Albanians. In the fifteenth centurythis people had Scanderbeg, their Alexander the Great, who, while he didnot have as large a theatre for his glory as Macedonia, was not inferior toAlexander in genius and was very differently great in justice and kind-. Ali Pasha of J.\j<ina (1741-1S22) THE LESSER BALKAN STATES 213 [1500-1800 A. D.] ness. Ami what people ever surpassed in courage those mountain Suliotes,among whom—and they numbered into the thousands—there was foundnot one old man, not one woman, not one child, who begged for mercy fromthe murderers sent by Ali Pasha ? The heroism of those Suliote women, whoset fire to their ammunition, who hurled themselves from the tops of cliffsor plunged into torrents, holding hands and singing their death-song, willalways remain one of the marvels of history. But with this bravery thereis mingled among many Albanian tribes a great savagery. Human life islightly valued among these warlike peoples; and as soon as it is shed, bloodcalls for blood, the victims are avenged by other victnns. They believe invampires, in phan
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