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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.

— David George Hogarth The Nearer East (1902)

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Tradition held the other element to be Hellenic, and no one in the fourth century seriously questioned its belief.

The king [of macedon] was chief in the first instance of a race of plain-dwellers, who held themselves to be, like him, of Hellenic stock.

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.

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