. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. istian civilization against Moslem barbarism. The victors quarreled over theconquered territory. Bulgaria demanded what seemed an unrea- 1 The Italians had long regarded the seizure of Algeria and Tunis by theFrench with great jealousy, and were anxious for a similar colonial empire inAfrica. Tripoli is not a very rich and promising district, however, and althoughthe Turks have been expelled, the Italians have found it a difficult task to beatdown the resistance of the Moorish desert tribes. |Turkey before the Wars. .Western Bou
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. istian civilization against Moslem barbarism. The victors quarreled over theconquered territory. Bulgaria demanded what seemed an unrea- 1 The Italians had long regarded the seizure of Algeria and Tunis by theFrench with great jealousy, and were anxious for a similar colonial empire inAfrica. Tripoli is not a very rich and promising district, however, and althoughthe Turks have been expelled, the Italians have found it a difficult task to beatdown the resistance of the Moorish desert tribes. |Turkey before the Wars. .Western Boundary of Turkey by the Treaty of3ucharest 19 Treaty of London, It was proposed to make thewestern boundary a straight line from Enos to Second Balkan War. however resulted in theestablishment of the boundary as stated boundary remains at the present time(April,. 1914) but it is quite possible that events may occur at any time to change it.) I ..i Territory ceded by Bulgaria to Roumania 1913 Albania is a new state created by the Longitude East 2-1 from G THE BALKAN WARS 546 HISTORY OF EUROPE sonable share, and became involved in war with Servia and theGreeks (1913). But Roumania (hitherto neutral) now attackedBulgaria in turn. This inexcusable Second War was shortbut horribly bloody, and awakened the worst possible passionsamong all the grim raw races of the Balkans. Bulgaria wasentirely defeated and stripped of part of her earlier , Greece, and Roumania were, of course, heavily thegainers; but it will be decades before the angry passions awak-ened in the Balkans cool and the various kingdoms cometogether on terms of real 317. The Hague Peace Tribunal. The last forty years havegiven painful evidence that the world is still far from an eraof universal peace, yet there is great encouragement for feelingthat if wars are not yet abolished, they are being constantlyavoided, and that such wars as do break out are being c
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