201Melik Shah,161Methodius,95Michael the Brave,23Michael Palæologus,116Mihrama, Mosque of,133Milan Obrenoviç,285Milosh Kabilovitch,174Milosh Obrenoviç,222Mohacz, Battle at,199,213Mahommed the Conqueror,43,102Mahommed the Conqueror, Sons of,55Mohammed I,38Mohammed II,38,113,116,184Mohammed III,206Mohammed IV,210Mohammed V,224Mohammed, son of Amurath,182Mohammed, son of Bajazet,179Mohammed Kiüprilü,210Mohammed’s plank road,39Moldavia,20,22Mollahs and Imams, Influence of,190Mompseueste, Gates of,113Monasticism,94Monastir, Capture of,290Montenegrins, The,44,288Morean Rebellion,243Morsiney, Elizabeth,175Moses of Koren, historian,295Moslems and Christians,226Mosques of Constantinople,102Mufti, The,191Murder a factor of Oriental policy,55Murder of unbelievers, The,121Musa, Prince, son of Bajazet,178Museum, The,50Mustapha II,215Mustapha the drunkard,209Mustapha the Pretender,180Mustapha, son of Suleiman,56Myrtché, Prince of Wallachia,174Mysore, The Maharajah of,165Nadir Derbena, Passes of,173Nadir, Shah,218Nasreddin Effendi, Stories of,141Navarino,221,243Navy, Roumania’s,27;Turkish,37,148,218Nemanya, The House of,279Niazi Bey,227Nicæa,83;Council of,57;capture of,166Nicephorus Phocas,52,67,113Nicholas I, Pope,92Nicholas of Montenegro,287Nicopolis, Siege of,176Nightingale, Florence, her hospital,40Nissa, Capture of,172Nomad Turks,158Odenatus,30Officers, Turkish,149Oglou, Michael,200Oil-fields in Roumania,27Omar,55,158Orchan, son of Othman,97,163,166Orsova,20Orthodox Greek Church, The,25,238Osman Pasha,25Othman,55,97,162Othman’s Scimitar,164Othman II,208Oulou Jedji, The,165Ouloudjé, Admiral,205Palace of the Porphyrogenitus,133Palæologi, The,116Paris, Convention of,24Parker, E. H.,145Parthians, The,261Passarowitz, Peace of,217Passvan Oglou of Vidin,224Patriarch, Armenian,86Patriarch, Greek,54Pausanias,50Pehlevan (Mohammed I),179Peloponese, The,234Pentecost, Feast of,44Persia and the Arabs,146Persians, The,42Peter, Bishop,83Peter the Great of Russia,23,217Peterwardein, Battle at,213Petroviç, George,283Petschenegs, The,22Phanar, The,89Philip of Macedon,42Photius,91Pialé the Croat,201“Pleureuses, Les,”50Plevna,25Poland, War with,208Polish Jews and Austrian railway carriages,19Pope Alexander Borgia,55Pravadi, Capture of,174Prince’s Islands, The,41Prinkipo Island,52Printing press, The,193Proverbs,142Pruth,23;Battle on the,217Przemysl,19Pultowa,217Pydna, Battle of,263Raab, Battle on the,211Radoïl,305Railway carriages, Austrian,19Rassia,279Red Crescent, The,50,122Refugees, Turkish,71,120Rhodes, The Knights of,193Riches of Roumania,26Robert College,95,297Rodosto,149Roe, Sir Thomas,208Roland the Paladin,52Roman Legionaries, The,21Roman Pontiff, Influence of the,91Romanies,22Romanus II,31,67Romanus IV, Defeat of,160Roumania and Austria,25;richness of,26;fauna,26;Bucharest,27;its position of danger,27;oilfields,27;navy,27;Constanza army,27Roumanian railways,19Roumanians, Descent of the,21Roumeli Hissar,38Roumeli Kavak,30Roxalana,56Russian influence,241Russians, The,30,43Safiyé, Sultana,205St. Bacchus,103St. Diomed, Monastery of,115St. George, Church of,133St. George of Mangane,95St. Gothardt, Monastery of,211St. Gregory the Illuminator,266St. Irene, Church of,57St. Michael the Archangel, Church of,31St. Romanus, Gate of,129St. Sergius,103St. Sophia, Mosque of,55,60,131San Stefano,137,150;Conference at,25St. Ursula,114Saladin,161Sala Mustapha,204Salm, Count,201Samakov,305Samanid Dynasty, The,159Samarkand,177Sanjaks,191Saracens, The,96Sarcophagi, Beautiful,50Sava Savof, General,294Saxons in Turkey,135Scanderbeg the Albanian,183School of Art, The,51Scutari,30,288;Hospital at,40;The Pasha of,224Scythians,20,261Seadeddin, historian,172Segrud,63Selim, son of Bajazet,195Selim I,55Selim II,57,203Selim III,219Seljuk Dynasty, The,159Semendria,32,282Seraglio, The,51Seraglio Point,39,41Seraskierat, The,153Serbs, The,23,236Serpents, Bronze,71Servia,44,174,183Servian Army, The,286,289,292Seven Hills of Constantinople, The,51Seven Ionian Islands, The,242Severus,113Sheikh-ul-Islam, The,51Shias, The,195Shiites, The,55Shinitza, The,174Shio, Battle of,218Shumla, Surrender of,173Sigismund, King of Hungary,175Silihdar, Horse of Mysore, The,165Simeon, son of Boris,95Simeon, Tsar,136,297Sisvan, King,172Sitvatorok, Peace of,207Slankamen, Battle at,214Slavs,22,235,264,277Smederovo,195Sobieski,213Sokoli, Grand Vizier,204Soldiers, Wounded,49Solyman,169,198Solyman, son of Bajazet,178Solyman II,213Songs,142Spahis, The,165Spartans, The,42Spy, A suspected,32,34Stahremberg, Count,213Stamboul,40Stenia,31Stephan Dushan,23Stephen, Zupan of East Servia,279Styria, Invasion of,176Sublime Porte, The,49,157Suleiman,56Sultan Oeni,160Sunnis, The,195Sutri, Council of,160Sutton, Sir Robert,217Sword of Othman, The,98Szeggedin, Treaty of,182Szigath, Siege of,202Tabriz,196Tamerlane,22,176Tartars,22Telegraph, Effect of the,224Temesvar, Battle at,216Temples on the Bosphorus,30Theodora,169Theodoric,72Theodosius, Fortress of,113Theodosius, Wall of,39,111Theodosius I,80Theodosius II,50,60,85,127Theophane,67Theophanes,31Theophilus,50,84,115Therapia,37Thracians,20,260Thogrul,159Tiridales,266Tirnova, Capture of,173Tobacco, Introduction of,207Topal Osman, General,217Top Kapousi,119Towers on the city walls,113,119Trajan,20Trajan’s Wall,27Transylvania,22Trebizond,42Tsarigrad,93Tsars of Muscovy, The,204Tshelebi (Mohammed I),179Tsigani, The,22Turkish soldiers,58Turks, The rise of the,97Turn Severin,21Ukraine, Turks defeated in the,212Urban, The Hungarian,127Urban, Pope,96Urban V, Pope,171Urban VI, Pope,173Üsküb,93Urudsh,66Valens,80Validé, Sultana,210Valideh, Mosque of,46Varangians, The,135Varna,148;Battle near,182Vasag,181Vasco da Gama,194“Vatan,”226Venetians in the Bosphorus,31Venice,31;fleet of, in the Golden Horn,32;Doge Dandolo,43,169Veniero, Admiral,205Veterani, Austrian General,215Vidin,25Vienna, Siege of,212Vilayets, The,224Vlachs, The,265,274Vladikas, The,287Voivods,23Von der Gotz, Field-Marshal,286Von Moltke, Count,221Vuk Brancoviç,181Wallachia,22Walls, The city,111Walls of Theodosius,116Warships on the Bosphorus, Foreign,40Western women as nurses,154Wild cat in Roumania, The,27William of Normandy,160Wittekind, Duke of the Saxons,52Yedi Koulé,112Yermak the Cossack,204Yoglan Bey,176Young Turks, The,227Ypsilanti, Alexander,343Zapolya,200Zimisces, John,67,116Zizimes,55