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moslemised, a Turkish town, and Turkmen, Cir-
cassian and recent refugee villages ; and all are
recognisable by the names without entering them,
while the first two can be distinguished only by the
names.1
The Turkish part of the population, then, is very
various in origin, Phrygian, Galatian, etc., mixed
with true Turkish blood ; but this whole class
regards itself as homogeneous, and its members
mix freely.
After the Osmanli chiefs ousted the Seljuk
Sultans, and reigned in their stead over a far vaster
empire, the whole Turkish population began to
style itself Osmanli; and at the present day the
name "Turk" is rarely used, and I have heard it
employed only in two ways, either as a distinguish-
ing term of race (for example, you ask whether a
village is "Turk" or " Turkmen"), and as a term
of contempt (for example, you mutter '' Turk Kafa,"
where in English you would say " Blockhead ").
The contempt felt and expressed by Mohamme-
dans of other races in the country for the Turks is
a remarkable feature of which I have seen numerous
examples. That excellent authority, " A Consul's
Daughter and Wife,"2 mentions a similar fact in
Macedonia : " The Mohammedan Albanians deeply
1 Many other examples are quoted loc. fir., pp. 27, 303, 576, 581.
' The Pcuplc of Turkey, i., p. 07.
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moslemised, a Turkish town, and Turkmen, Cir-
cassian and recent refugee villages ; and all are
recognisable by the names without entering them,
while the first two can be distinguished only by the
names.1
The Turkish part of the population, then, is very
various in origin, Phrygian, Galatian, etc., mixed
with true Turkish blood ; but this whole class
regards itself as homogeneous, and its members
mix freely.
After the Osmanli chiefs ousted the Seljuk
Sultans, and reigned in their stead over a far vaster
empire, the whole Turkish population began to
style itself Osmanli; and at the present day the
name "Turk" is rarely used, and I have heard it
employed only in two ways, either as a distinguish-
ing term of race (for example, you ask whether a
village is "Turk" or " Turkmen"), and as a term
of contempt (for example, you mutter '' Turk Kafa,"
where in English you would say " Blockhead ").
The contempt felt and expressed by Mohamme-
dans of other races in the country for the Turks is
a remarkable feature of which I have seen numerous
examples. That excellent authority, " A Consul's
Daughter and Wife,"2 mentions a similar fact in
Macedonia : " The Mohammedan Albanians deeply
1 Many other examples are quoted loc. fir., pp. 27, 303, 576, 581.
' The Pcuplc of Turkey, i., p. 07.