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Title: The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Chisholm, Hugh, 1866-1924
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais ENCICLOPEDIAS Y DICCIONARIOS INGLESES Enciclopedias Estrangeiras
Publisher: Cambridge, Eng., New York, At the University press
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. It was subject to thedirect personal control of the sultan, who was himself a temporalautocrat, which he now is not, and the most generally recognizedcaliph, that is, successor, of the Prophet, and consequentlythe spintual head of by far the greater portion of the Moslemworld—as he still is. Owing principally to the fact that thesystem of the caliph Omar came to be treated as an immutabledogma which was clearly not intended by its originator, and to the peculiar relations which developed therefrom between theMussulman Turkish conquerors and the peoples (principallyChristian) which fell under their sway, no such thing as anOttoman nation has ever been created. It has been a juxta-position of separate and generally hostile peoples in territoriesbound under one rule by the military sway of a dominant race.Various endeavours have been made since the time of Sebm III.(1789-1807), who initiated them, to break down the barriers to the formation of a homogeneous nation. The most earnest and
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ADMINISTRATION) TURKEY 427 I Races. Regions inhabited.or\ilayets. Religions, Albanians . lannina, Scutari of Albania, Mussulman, Kossovo, Monastir Orthodox,Catholic Bulgarians . Salonica, Kossovo, Monastir Orthodox (dis-senting) Senians. Kossovo Orthodox Greeks . Constantinople, Adrianople, Orthodox and Salonica, Monastir, Kos- partly Greca sovo, Janina, Archipelago, catholic Vllayets of Asiatic Turkey, (Hudavcndighiar, Aidin. Konia, Angora, Kastamuni, Trebizond. Sivas, Adana Syria, Aleppo, Sanjak of Jerusalem) Crete Kutzo-\nachs (See Monastir, lannina Orthodox Macedonia) Turks , . . The whole of European Tur-key,Vilayets of Asia Minor.(Bitlis, Van, Mamuret-ut-Aziz.part of Mosul and cer-tain islands of Vilayet of t heArchipelago, of Cyprus,Crele) Mussulman Lazes Trebizond and throughout Mussulman and the whole of Eastern Asia Orthodox Minor Kurds . Erzcrum.Sivas.Scert .Angora.Mosul Mussulman Circassians Spread over the whole of AsiaMinor Mussulman Avchar . Adana, Angora, Sivas Mussulm

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