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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
It was not until the very turn of the 18th and 19th centuries that the first faint signs of recuperation began to show themselves among the subject populations of the Balkan peninsula, and by that time a more than usually rigorous form of foreiga conquest seemed to have permanently imposed itself. And indeed, as we look back over the period of a century and a half in which the rebirth of the submerged nations has taken place, there is still little or nothing to explain the almost miraculous character of the change.
page 1 note 1 This paper was intended to form the Presidential Address for 1948, which Prof. Seton-Watson was prevented by illness from reading. He has kindly made it available for publication in this volume of Transactions. [Ed.]
page 3 note 1 The false news of victory at Kosovo had been celebrated by High Mass in Notre Dame de Paris, by order of Charles VI.
page 5 note 1 Unless an exception be made in favour of two little pin-points upon the map—the now decaying Republic of Dubrovnik-Ragusa and the stony wastes of the Black Mountain, which served a purpose as a refuge for altogether desperate rebels against Turkish rule.
page 6 note 1 This was put quite clearly by KaraGeorge himself in his meetings at Zemun with the Austrian commandant, Baron Siembschen, in 1808.
page 13 note 1 The elder statesman was known in Greece as the translator of Homer into English verse.