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Title: Bulgaria

Author: Frank Fox

Illustrator: Jan V. Mrkvitchka
Noel Pocock

Release Date: August 6, 2007 [EBook #22257]

Language: English

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BULGARIA

_Uniform with this Volume_

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
ENGLAND
FRANCE
ITALY
SWITZERLAND

A. AND C. BLACK, LTD.,
4 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.

[Illustration: A YOUNG SHOP MAN OF THE DISTRICT OF SOFIA
_Frontispiece_]

BULGARIA

BY

FRANK FOX
AUTHOR OF "ENGLAND," "ITALY," AND "SWITZERLAND"

WITH 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON
A. AND C. BLACK, LIMITED
1915

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Page

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER II
BULGARIA AND THE DEATH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 15

CHAPTER III
THE SCRAP-HEAP OF RACES 36

CHAPTER IV
BULGARIA--A POWER AND A TURKISH PROVINCE 52

CHAPTER V
THE LIBERATION OF BULGARIA 65

CHAPTER VI
THE WAR OF 1912-1913 77

CHAPTER VII
A WAR CORRESPONDENT'S TRIALS IN BULGARIA 99

CHAPTER VIII
INCIDENTS OF BULGARIAN CHARACTER 120

CHAPTER IX
THE TRAGEDY OF 1914 134

CHAPTER X
SOME FACTS FOR THE TOURIST AND THE ECONOMIST 150

CHAPTER XI
HOW BULGARIA IS GOVERNED 167

CHAPTER XII
THE FUTURE OF BULGARIA 174

CHAPTER XIII
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EUROPE 187

INDEX 207

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

By JAN