The Open court . peace concluded at Venice in 1478 the sovereignty of Turkeyover Albania was recognized although never permanently estab-lished. Revolts were frequent and the only thing which caused apleasant relation was Turkeys demand for adventurous soldiers. 70 THE OPEN COURT. The Turks recruited their armies in Albania with success, for theAlbanians were always ready for a brawl and eager for spoils andcould easily be induced to fight for any cause against any countrywhere spoils could be expected. Through the friendly relation between the quasi-conquerors, theTurks, and the partially sub
The Open court . peace concluded at Venice in 1478 the sovereignty of Turkeyover Albania was recognized although never permanently estab-lished. Revolts were frequent and the only thing which caused apleasant relation was Turkeys demand for adventurous soldiers. 70 THE OPEN COURT. The Turks recruited their armies in Albania with success, for theAlbanians were always ready for a brawl and eager for spoils andcould easily be induced to fight for any cause against any countrywhere spoils could be expected. Through the friendly relation between the quasi-conquerors, theTurks, and the partially subjected Albanians, the Mohammedan re-ligion took a firm root in the country, but the Islam of the Albaniansis by no means the orthodox religion of Mohammed. Christianitywas not suppressed; on the contrary it was retained, and the twoconfessions, the Greek and the Roman churches, hate each otherfar more than they hate the Mohammedans. Thus it happensthat the religious conditions in Albania are a resfular melee. The. THE SERVIAN CHURCH, THE MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE, AND THE CITADEL OF PRIZREN. men of the family mostly go to the mosques while the women attendchurch either according to the Greek or Latin ritual. There is noquarrel on account of religion except between the Greeks and theLatins. In its original and main stock the Albanian race is most prob-ably the purest remnant of the ancestors of the Greeks. Greek tra-ditions refer with great reverence to the sacred oak and the oracleof Dodona, and so the ancient Epirotes must have been cousins tothe Macedonians, the Thracians, the Illyrians and the Pelasgi ofancient Greece. The latter were probably their nearest kin. Thepresent language seems to preserve some traces of pre-Hellenicspeech, but it has been influenced successively by Greek, Roman,Slavic (Servian and Bulgarian) and Turkish ingredients. ALBANIA. 71 The eleventh edition of the Encyclopccdia Britannica contains thefollowing account of the Albanian language: Albanian is particul
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