Quotes from The Nearer East — David George Hogarth
1862–1927 England
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The Austrian occupation of Herzegovina, Bosnia, and the sanjak of Novi-Bazar, and the creation of independent Servia and Rumania, and an all but independent Bulgaria, won the basin of the Lower Danube for the West.
The Nearer East (1902)
Fifty years ago the author of Eothen saw the portal of the East in the walls of Belgrade. To-day the western visitor...would not expect to find himself in the "East" until he should sight the minarets of Adrianople, or, at earliest, the three mastoid hills of Philippopolis.
The Nearer East (1902)
The Nearer East is a term of current fashion for a region which our grandfathers were content to call simply The East. Its area is generally understood to coincide with those classic lands, historically the most interesting on the surface of the globe, which lie about the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nearer East (1902)