BULGARIAN SUFFERINGS FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO.
The Cologne Gazette observes that Bulgaria has on several occasions fignred in history as the scene of " atrocities " no less horrible than those lately committed by the Bashi Bazouks. The Greek Emieror 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 that they might guide their fellow prisoners back to their homes. Even more atrocious was the massacre of the Gothic settlers in Bulgaria. The much«praised Emperor Claudius 11. gives the following account of this massacre in a letter ciied by the historian TrebeHitts Pollio, which is thus translated :— "We liave destroyed 320,000 Goths, and sunk 2000 ships. The rivers are covered with shields, their backs with spears and pikes, and the fields with bones. No road is free from blood ; the huge barricade of barricades is deserted ; and we have captured so maay women that each of our conquering soldiers can take tv. o or three for his share."
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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 71, 31 January 1877, Page 2
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173BULGARIAN SUFFERINGS FIFTEEN CENTURIES AGO. Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 71, 31 January 1877, Page 2
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