ABSTRACT
The appointment as governor in 1895 of Alexandros Karatheodori Pasha, a Phanariot who had been the Porte's chief representative at the Congress of Berlin, satisfied no one. It infuriated the Muslims and did not prevent another rising of the Greeks in 1896. The Russian victory had brought virtual independence, but a bitter one, as Bulgaria emerged in two pieces. The Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Roumelia were both technically part of the Ottoman Empire. Bulgarian public opinion had stood behind its army; Serbian public opinion had not accepted the war; scars were left to be exploited in the future. As the end of the Eastern Crisis seemed to announce the break-up of Turkey in favour of the Slavs, the Bulgars went up the scale of enemies. Romania abandoned the Cyrillic script and continued to purge the language of much Slav, Greek and Turkish vocabulary.
