BULGARIAN SUFFERINGS FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO.
The Cologne Gazette observes that Bulgaria has on several occasions figured in history as the scene of " atrocities" no less horrible than those lately committed by the Bashi Bazouks. The Greek Emperor Basilious 11., was nicknamed " Bulgaroktons" because he ordered 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners to have their eyes put out, a few only being left with one eye, in order tb.at they might guide their fellow prisoners back to their homes. Even more atrocions was the massacre of the Gothic settlers in Bulgaria. much-paised Emperor Claudius 11. gives the following account of this massacre in a letter cited by the historian Trebellius Pollio, which is thus translated :— "We have destroyed 320,000 Goths, and sunk 2000 ships. The rivers are covered with shields, their banks with spears and picks, and the fields with bones. No road is free from blood ; the huge barricade of-barricades is deserted ; and we have captured so many -tyomen that each of our conquering soldiers can take two or three for his share."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 62, 20 February 1877, Page 3
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170BULGARIAN SUFFERINGS FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 62, 20 February 1877, Page 3
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