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Show xravcicr. TURK LOSING HOLD IN EUROPE Vast Empire Once Under the Creirent Has Been Slowly Dwindling Since the Year 1699, Thoso who wero In hopes that Turkey Tur-key might tako herself, "bag and baggage, bag-gage, out of everything" nnd have seen a setback to their hopes In the Sevres revision, can cheer up a bit by looking nt the map, says the Christian Science Monitor. Tho chart of tho Ottoman cmplro as It lias existed ex-isted since 1GS0 presents, Indued, a hopeful sight. The empire slowlx aud surely has been going back to first things. The crumbling begnn In 1C00, when Transylvania, Slovakia nnd a chunk of Poland nnd Hungary were Most. Tho Uanat went In 1717, tho Hukowlnn In 1770, tho Tnurlda and the Crimea In 1783, and tho Odessa district dis-trict In 1702. Tho next century was even more disastrous for Turkey, who lost Ilcssnrnbla In 1812, a part of Serbia In 1817, Georgia and Greece In 1820, Algeria In 1830, Bulgaria In 1870, northern Armenia, Ilumnnla and moro of Serbia In 1878, Tunisia aud somo of Grecco In 1881, and Egypt In 1882. Nor has tho prcsentcentury been behind Its predecessor. Llbyn was n great loss In 1012, following the annexation by Austria in 1008 'of Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1013 proved particularly unfortunate for the Turks In tho Balkans, and last year then slipped from their grasp tho Ilpijaz, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, the strips along tho Persian gulf, Smyrna nnd somo of Armenia. It Is n tale of consistent disaster. |