. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . minor chains, which divide and sub-divide the included area into deep valleys. Thearea is scarcely as large as an average Englishcounty, yet is it most difficult to enter, and nearlyas difficult to traverse. This savage region has been the abode, therefuge, of hardy mountaineers for unnumberedcenturies—attacked by various surrounding nationsin turn, but never thoroughly subdued by basis of the population is Slavonic. Thesultans have claimed Montenegro as part of European Turkey for four centuries
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . minor chains, which divide and sub-divide the included area into deep valleys. Thearea is scarcely as large as an average Englishcounty, yet is it most difficult to enter, and nearlyas difficult to traverse. This savage region has been the abode, therefuge, of hardy mountaineers for unnumberedcenturies—attacked by various surrounding nationsin turn, but never thoroughly subdued by basis of the population is Slavonic. Thesultans have claimed Montenegro as part of European Turkey for four centuries past; but theclaim has never been wholly admitted ; and hencehas ensued terrible bloodshed. Being almostclose to the Adriatic, Montenegro has beenregarded with wistful eyes by Austria; being ofSlavonic race and of Greek Christian faith, Mon-tenegro has long been protected by Russia ; andthus the mountain-state has been brought intoa degree of political importance which it wouldnot otherwise possess. In one among many contests to which theMontenegrins were exposed in past times, they. Montenegro. were left without an acknowledged chieftain; asa substitute, they gave temporal power to theirvladika or chief-priest, constituting him a sort ofwarlike pope. This affords a clue to the holdmaintained by Russia over the sympathies ofMontenegro. Since the time of Peter the Great,the czars have claimed to be the head of theGreek Church; and although this claim may nothave been formally admitted, a power has beenvirtually exercised in conformity with it. Thepriests of the Greek faith in all the Turkishprovinces, as has been more than once explained,very generally admit this claim, covertly if notopenly. The czars have been lavish to thevladikas, and have bid highly for power inMontenegro through the influence thus acquired. Captain Spencer, writing in 1851, speaks thusof Montenegro, in respect to the sympathy betweenthe vladika and the Russians: The present vladika received his educatio
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