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Excerpt from Helladian Vistas
After the empire of Rome had been divided into two portions, the western portion was destroyed, in 476 perhaps. But the eastern portion healed itself from its wounds Of amputation, and rounded itself out into an independent empire which continued to exist until its great city, Constantinople, was subjugated by the Turks in 1453. The Byzantine empire was Romaean because it had been formed from the eastern half of the empire of Rome. It was the east-roman state, and was molded out of Hellenic and Hellenistic ele ments under government originally centered in western Rome.
Most Of this Balkanland has been dominated for four centuries by the Turks. These Moslem conquer ors, however, have signally proved themselves unable to gain the respect and confidence of the peoples which they have externally subdued, and have been equally unable even outwardly to amalgamate all these inimical races into a compact and vigorous state or federation.
Accordingly, these disunited peoples have always been incessantly looking forward to the dawning of their day of manumission from Moslem servitude.
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