. 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: . s equally transformed. Inspirit, also, Ser\ia Is more and more breaking away from Turkish a short time ago it was a people of the Orient; from now on it belongsto the Western world, by labour and initiative. All cults are free, jet the Greco-Catholic religion is called the state ascd to recognise the patriarch of Constantinople as its nominal head,but since the nineteenth century it has called i
. 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: . s equally transformed. Inspirit, also, Ser\ia Is more and more breaking away from Turkish a short time ago it was a people of the Orient; from now on it belongsto the Western world, by labour and initiative. All cults are free, jet the Greco-Catholic religion is called the state ascd to recognise the patriarch of Constantinople as its nominal head,but since the nineteenth century it has called itself autocephalous, and isgoverned by a s\Tiod composed of the archbishop of Belgrade, the metro-politan of Servia, and three diocesan bishops. In Servia all able-bodied men form part of the army, but, to speak prop-erly, the standing army, numbering four thousand men at the most, is onlya framework in which all the corps of the national militia would have toenlist in case of need. Servia could easily put a hundred to a hundredand fifty thousand men into the field. Its military organisation is propor-tionately perhaps the strongest possessed by any stat« in CHAPTER IVTHE LESSER BALKAN STATES Of the minor states of the Balkan Peninsula, only Montenegro, Bosnia,and Herzegovina have had an independent history. As their politics cannotbe said to have influenced world history to any extent, it has seemed advisableto give it only a general treatment, chronicling the main facts in the form ofa tabulated chronology. Albania and Macedonia as such have had no indi-vidual history, and only a general description of their people and their condi-tion has been given. Montenegro There is a tradition that at the creation the Lord passed above the earthdistributing stones over its surface out of a bag, and that when he was passingover Montenegro the bag burst and all the remaining stones fell out uponthe Black Mountain. There are different tales concerning the origin ofthe name monte
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