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of the scholar, Greece, the great subject of the present contest between Turkey & the Allied Powers, and which has now, as at the commencement, been attended with success. The first migration of the Turks was in the sixth century, soon after which they subdued the people vulgarly called the White Huns, ,and founded their earliest western government, the capital city of it being for some time called Turkestan. From the centre of this province issued those Turkish armies which have changed the destiny of many nations. The Turks and Huns may be considered as one and the same Tartaric race, totally unknown to Europe, until the appearance of the latter, who first passed the steppes, deserts, and mountains, which had concealed them from observation till the middle of the fourth century. '.~ "
 The Huns who appeared about A. D. S75 passed in course of uniform depred- ation, rapidly from Asia to Europe; but the Turks, though originally the same peo- pie, separating from the Huns, made vc- ry slow and gradual progress, and appear to have been blended by marriages and conquests with the Sclavonic and Gothic tribes, ou the north and east of the Caspi- an. Such was the origin of the Turkest- an name, and from hence the Turks scat tered desolation over the most beautiful countries in the east, and threatened the liberties of Europe. The following is giv- en by Pilkinton as the epochs oftheir con- quests in the latter:
 The first dawn of Turkish history pre- ceding the reign of Othman l., occurs A. D. 1926. Tn the reign of his successor Orkan, the Turks took Gallipoli, and pen- etrated into Thrace, so that Adrianople was taken A. D. 1869: two years after that period, Amurath established the mli- tary bands termed Janissaries. The Turk ish power was for some time restrained af- ter the battle near Ascyra, A. D. 14O2 be- tween Bajaset and Timour; nevertheless, the dominions of the Turks increased in Europe, though they received several se- were checks from the Hungarians, under Haniades, and from the Albanians, under
 he famous Schanderberg. On the 29th of May, y,1453, ,Constantinople was taken by the Turks. Crimea and the Morea were subjugated A. D. l458, and in l48O Otra- to, in Italy was captured by the Turks. The conquest of Egypt in l5l8 made con- siderable addition to their power; Rhodes submitted in 1922 and soon after the bat lie of Monaty, in 1926, the Sultan Soley- man took Buda.
 In 1852 the Ottomans seized the Ban- nat of T emmeswar, and they took Cyprus from the Venetians in 157t. Although after the famous naval engagement of Le- panto, in this year, their power ceased to be formidable, they invaded Hungary with various successes, yet Europe obtained all interval of security by their wars with Per- sia. However, in 1642, the Sultan Ibra- him took Azoph from the Cossacks, and, about the middle of this century, the Ot- tomans took possession of some of the Isl- ands of the Archipelago. The last epoch of Turkish history would lead to a detail of the Russian wars against the Turks, & the decline of the Ottoman empire in Eu- rope. It may be observed in general that the Turkish dominion wherever it has pre- vailed, has been detrimental, in very high degree to the best interests ofhuman- ity, and to every improvement. mental or moral, ecclesiastical or civil.
 The appellation of Ottoman or O,hman is from Othemanus, or Osman, the first prince of the family, whe, to distinguish them from others, gave his people the name of Osmandus, from which by changing to [, we have made Ottoman which new name soon became formidable to the in- habitants of Constantinople, from whom Osman conquered sufficient extent of ter r;tory to found a powerful kingdom. He soon bestowed on it that title, by assum- ing in 1900, the dignity of Sultan, which signi6ed absolute sovereign. The era of the Ottoman empire may be dated from the conquest of Persia. The establishment of the Ottomans in Europe took place in 1903.
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