Twenty Years’ Residence Among the People of Turkey

About this eBook

Author

Blunt, Fanny Janet Sandison, 1840-1926

Title

Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey: Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians

Original Publication

United States: Harper & Brothers,1878.

Credits

Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DR: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Balkan Peninsula, Turkey

Subject

Land tenure -- Turkey

Category

Text

eBook-No.

67626

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67626

Release Date

March 13, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TWENTY YEARS’ RESIDENCE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF TURKEY: BULGARIANS, GREEKS, ALBANIANS, TURKS, AND ARMENIANS.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CHAPTER I. THE BULGARIANS.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. THE GREEKS OF TURKEY.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. THE ALBANIANS.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. THE TURKS.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. THE ARMENIANS AND JEWS IN TURKEY.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. THE CIRCASSIANS, TATARS, AND GYPSIES OF TURKEY.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. TENURE OF LAND.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. PEASANT HOLDINGS.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. TURKISH HOUSES.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. THE SERAGLIO.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. MUNICIPALITY, POLICE, AND BRIGANDAGE.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. CEREMONIES OF BIRTH AND INFANCY.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. FOOD.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. DRESS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. TURKISH WEDDINGS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. CHRISTIAN WEDDINGS—GREEK, BULGARIAN, AND ARMENIAN. — MARRIAGE AMONG THE BULGARIANS. — ARMENIAN WEDDINGS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. EDUCATION AMONG THE MOSLEMS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. EDUCATION AMONG THE GREEKS AND BULGARIANS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XX. SUPERSTITION.
23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. ISLAM IN TURKEY.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. CHRISTIANITY IN TURKEY.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND MISSIONARY WORK.
26. 26.FOOTNOTES

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