The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-19
SERVIA.
A Glimpse at the History of Stephen Du-
 shan's Mighty Empire.

A Glimpse at the History of Stephen Du- shan's Mighty Empire.
 It lacks but five of five hundred years since, at the fatal battle of Kossovo, which decided the fate of the most east erly peninsula of Europe, as Sultan Amurath stood surveying the field of blood, Servian noble, rising from amid the heaps of slain, plunged dag ger into his bowels, and the first of the European Sultans lay upon the same field with the last of the Servian Czars. At this time the Servian empire-com- prising not only the territory which it is the present aim of Servia to acquire, but the whole of the present territories of Turkey in Europe south of the Danube, including the Bulgarian kingdom, which was then subsidiary, as also Thessaly and Epirus-had just reached the sum- init of its power under the able leader ship of Stephen Dushan, whose ambi- ton was to restore at Constantinople the old Roman Empire of the East. A fever, however, carried off Stephen who had already been proclaimed Elm peror of the RoumanianS or Romans on his march to Constantinople, thus very probably altering the destinies of his race. But to show that the lapse of five hundred years has not dimmed the remembrance of the Servian hero in the hearts of his countrymen, we can not do better than quote from the old poems which are sung daily in Servian homes.
 When Stephen Dushan felt the hand of death upon him, he bade them carry him to the top of a hill, whence he could look on the one hand toward Con- stantinople and on the other toward the Servian lands. And behold, when he had looked this way and that, bitter tears gathered in the eyes of the Car. Then said his Secretary, King's-son- Marks: Wherefore weepest thou, O Czar?" The Czar answered him: ''There- fore weep 1, not because I am going to leave the countries where I have made good roads, and builded good bridges, and appointed good governors, but be- cause must leave them without taking the City of Empire; and 1 see the gate standing open by which the enemy of the land will enter in" Then the Secre- tary Marks made haste and wrote down luc WOIuS O1 GIlc OZdi, IIldO IlIty IllSuI be remembered by his son, the boy Urosh; that they might be remembered by the Servian nation; that they might be remembered by all people among the Slavs.
 The boy Urosh was murdered, and even Lazar, a natural son of Stephen Dushan, who succeeded him as a ruler, though a man of ability, could not check the tide of Moslem invasion. Thus, af- ter on occupation of more than seven hundred years from the time when, about 630, the Servians, along with the Greats, were invited by the Greek Elm peror Heraclius to leave their homes near the Carpathian Mountains and set tie in what is now Western and Central Turkey, then depopulated by the exodus of the Lombards to Italy, and act as barrier against the incursions of the Avars from the North, the Slovenian Empire, extending from Epirus, or AL bania, upon the south to the River Drave upon the north, and from the Adriatic upon the west to the Black Sea in the east, fell under the hands of the Turk. The Moslem domination has lasted nearly five hundred years.-M o. Tra17oc Do711ooynf