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IOO THE MOHAMMEDAN RACES
resent the forfeiture of their liberty and the loss
of their privileges. . . . The Albanian regards
the Turk as a doubtful friend, and a corrupt and
impotent master." Similarly, Circassians have
said to me : " We fear the Russians much : we fear
the English more : but we despise the Turks ".
II. TURKMEN.—The Turkmen tribes are widely
scattered through Anatolia. Already in the
beginning of the thirteenth century, the historian
Anna Comnena distinguishes correctly between
Turks and Turkmens. The Turkmens are all
nomadic, while the Turks lead a settled life. Yet
it is certain that Turkmen villages occasionally put
off the nomadic habit and adopt a settled life ; but
in that case, they tend to forget the name Turkmen,
and to rank themselves as Turk and Osmanli. In
the large valley of Metropolis (Tchul-Ova or Turk-
men-Ova), I was told in 1883 that there was one
Turk village, and all the rest were Turkmen. Now,
most of them claim to be Turk : in one village,
where we were very hospitably entertained in 1891, CO
the magnate, who was by birth merely the Turk-
men chief, admitted with some reluctance and
shamefacedness, that the village had originally
been Turkmen : doubtless his successor will believe &
that he is pure Osmanli. o
This process, as I believe, has been going on for
centuries, but it has been greatly quickened in
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resent the forfeiture of their liberty and the loss
of their privileges. . . . The Albanian regards
the Turk as a doubtful friend, and a corrupt and
impotent master." Similarly, Circassians have
said to me : " We fear the Russians much : we fear
the English more : but we despise the Turks ".
II. TURKMEN.—The Turkmen tribes are widely
scattered through Anatolia. Already in the
beginning of the thirteenth century, the historian
Anna Comnena distinguishes correctly between
Turks and Turkmens. The Turkmens are all
nomadic, while the Turks lead a settled life. Yet
it is certain that Turkmen villages occasionally put
off the nomadic habit and adopt a settled life ; but
in that case, they tend to forget the name Turkmen,
and to rank themselves as Turk and Osmanli. In
the large valley of Metropolis (Tchul-Ova or Turk-
men-Ova), I was told in 1883 that there was one
Turk village, and all the rest were Turkmen. Now,
most of them claim to be Turk : in one village,
where we were very hospitably entertained in 1891, CO
the magnate, who was by birth merely the Turk-
men chief, admitted with some reluctance and
shamefacedness, that the village had originally
been Turkmen : doubtless his successor will believe &
that he is pure Osmanli. o
This process, as I believe, has been going on for
centuries, but it has been greatly quickened in
a
rn
m
b