Identifier: travelsinslavoni00mack (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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neighbour-hood into Hungary, where to this day the appellationEashki denotes Serbians of the Eastern Church. According to the plan of journey made out atMonastir, Novi Bazaar was our last stage on theMussulman side of the border; but the ride overKossovo and the zelena planina had so far restoredour health, and the descriptions of Ipek and Detchanihad so strongly excited our interest, that we could notbear to leave all this unexplored country behind us andcross into the Principality, where we knew every stepof the road to Belgrade. Bather we bethought our-selves of a long-cherished scheme, viz., to turn back at * In early Serbian history it is mentioned that an exchange of prisonersbetween Serbians and Bulgarians took place at this town of Rascia, asbeing then the frontier between Serbia and Bulgaria. The Serbian name for that part of a town where the citizens live isvarosh, in contradistinction to the grad, or citadel. Terg is the immediate market-place, whence tergovatz^ a merchant.
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CKAP. XXI.) NOVI BAZAAR. 317 Novi Bazaar, cross the hills to Ipek, and then pass viaPrizren to Scutari, in Albania. Novi Bazaar is a principal station on the road betweenConstantinople and Saraievo, and it was evident that theauthorities were not ill-ofF for troops ;—no doubt theycould spare us such an escort as was required. On theother hand, if we could not get to Ipek, at least wemight go a two days tour further westward to Senitza,and cross thence to Serbia, in which case we shouldvisit Uzitza, a part of the country we had not alreadyseen. Of this change of plan it was necessary to ap-prize our friends at Belgrade, lest, should we not appearat the date when they expected us, they might expressanxieties, which the Austrian papers would take upand cook into some absurd report or other. ThoseAustrian journalists are so attentive in detailing onesmovements—even ones motives—what a pity thatwhile they are about it they so seldom found their ac-counts on facts. At our request the

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