Excerpt from Czar Ferdinand: And His People The admission that I was under the impression, even when travelling through the country, that the population consisted of Turks and Greeks. It was, indeed, a common assumption that the Christian population of the district were Greeks in race, as they were in religion. It was not till I reached Constantinople, and made acquaintance with the late Lord Strangford, then attached to the British Embassy, who alone of these existing Englishmen knew anything of the Balkan Peninsula and its people, that I learnt the existence of a Bulgarian people with a past history and a possible future.' 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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