The Turks, the Greeks, & the Slavons : travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe / by G. Muir Mackenzie and A.P. Irby ; with maps, and numerous illustrations by F. Kanitz.

Date:
1867
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Credit: The Turks, the Greeks, & the Slavons : travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe / by G. Muir Mackenzie and A.P. Irby ; with maps, and numerous illustrations by F. Kanitz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lazar, usually so mild, called on the assembled nobles to support him in reducing Marko, and finally deprived him of his fief. Landless and exas- perate, Marko sought the camp of the Turks, and offered his sword to the Sultan ; apparently for those campaigns in Asia wherein, Mahometan warring against Mahometan, adventurers from Christendom cared not on which side they fought, so that they earned booty and renown. It is said that the Sultan at one time gave Marko the nominal investiture of Castoria and the Argohde {X) but afterwards, when Amurath marched on Serbia, the heir of Vukashine resumed possession of his own Castle of Prilip. Hence, whereas the Serbians know Marko only as Kralievitch, or King's Son, the Bulga- rians of Prilip call him Marko Krai. That Marko fought for the Turkish Sultan in many a campaign is doubtless, but that he ever marched against his native country remains at least wholly uncertain. Indeed it appears impossible that he should have been in the habit of serving against any people of his own communion, w4ien we read of his consterna- tion at being summoned to fight the orthodox Prince of the Roumans. Loyal to his Suzerain, Marko Kralievitch came into the field ; but when he saw men of his own faith arrayed in battle against Mahometans, and himself on the Infidels' side, horror took possession of his soul. Oh, God ! cried he, do thou this day destroy all those who fight against Christendom, and foremost Marko. Then throwing himself upon the spears of the Christians, or as some say, plunging into a morass, he met the doom he felt he had deserved. Of this repentant death, the feeling, if not the facts, has been truthfully preserved in popular poetry. Taken