ABSTRACT
THE other Christian nationalities of the Balkan peninsula, with the exception of the Orthodox Albanians, showed little concern in the struggle of the Greeks for their independence. In vain Rhegas had appealed to the "tigers of Montenegro," the "Christian brothers of the Save and of the Danube," to "Bulgarians, Serbs, and Roumans" to rise as one people on behalf of the liberty of Greece. Had they heeded the poet's call, the 'furks must have been crushed by the forces of the united Christians. But there was no probability of such an alliance of the Balkan peoples against the common enenlY. The Roumans-actually opposed, while Prince Milosh of Servia abstained from supporting, the Hetairist movement; not a few Serbs and Bulgarians, it is true, were anlong Hypselantes' followers in Wallachia, and a Bulgarian band was ready to co-operate with;-)him beyond the Danube. But there was no general rising of the Christians. In 1821, as· in 1897, the other Christian races sought so to shape their policy as to profit by the Greco-Turkish war. Not till 1912 did they unite.
