Excerpt from Turkey Old and New, Vol. 1: Historical, Geographical and StatisticalThat the chief objects of that hatred should have been, and Should still be, the Turks, who had in the meanwhile conquered Constantinople, and established in Europe a dominion which extended to the Russian frontier, and that, along with their hatred of the Turks, should have been maintained a yearning to deliver from Turkish tyranny their own less fortunate kinsmen and fellow religionists south of the Danube.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.