Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 14 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe

Turkey is a barbarous term of equivocal import, which ought long ago to have been excluded from geography. Whether we understand it as denoting the country of the Turks or the dominions of the Grand Turk, (as the Sultan used to be denominated, ) the appellation has little propriety. That portion of Europe which bears the Ottoman yoke cannot be considered as characteristically a Turkish country, since, in those provinces, the Turks do not form a third of the population, and they appear there, as it has been well remarked, less as a nation, than as an army encamped in the midst of vanquished nations.

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