THE SPREAD OF ISLAM AMONG THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS IN EUROPE UNDER THE TURKS.
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Arnold, Thomas Walker, Sir
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131 Bizzi, fol. 35, a. ↑
132 Farlati, vol. vii. pp. 104, 107. ↑
133 It is also complained that the Archbishop’s palace was appropriated by the Muhammadans, but it had been left unoccupied for eight years, as Archbishop Ambrosius (flor. 1579–1598) had found it prudent to go into exile, having attacked Islam “with more fervour than caution, inveighing against Muḥammad and damning his Satanic doctrines.” (Farlati, vol. vii. p. 107.) ↑
134 Bizzi, fol. 9, where he says, “E comunicai quella mattina quasi tutta la Christianità latina.” From a comparison with statistics given by Zmaievich (fol. 227) I would hazard the conjecture that the Latin Christian community at this time amounted to rather over a thousand souls. ↑
135 Bizzi, fol. 27, b; 38, b. ↑
136 Veniero, fol. 34. This was also the custom in some villages of Albania as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century; see W. M. Leake: Travels in Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 49. (London, 1835): “In some villages, Mahometans are married to Greek women, the sons are educated as Turks, and the daughters as Christians; and pork and mutton are eaten at the same table.” ↑
137 Bizzi, fol. 38, b. Farlati, tom. vii. p. 158. ↑
138 Bizzi, fol. 10, b. Veniero, fol. 34. ↑
139 Shortly after Marco Bizzi’s arrival at Antivari a Muhammadan lady of high rank wished to have her child baptised by the Archbishop himself, who tells us that she complained bitterly to one of the leading Christians of the city that “io non mi fossi degnato di far a lei questo piacere, il qual quotidianamente vien fatto dai miei preti a richiesta di qualsivoglia plebeo” (fol. 10, b). ↑
140 For modern instances of the harmonious relations subsisting between the followers of the two faiths living together in the same village, see Hyacinthe Hecquard: Histoire et description de la Haute Albanie (pp. 153, 162, 200). (Paris, 1858.) ↑
141 Bizzi, fol. 38, a. ↑
142 Garnett, p. 267. ↑
143 Bizzi, fol. 36, b. ↑
144 Id. fol. 38, b; 37, a. ↑
145 Bizzi, fol. 38, b; 61, a; 37, a; 33, b. ↑
146 Zmaievich, fol. 5. The Venetian real in the eighteenth century was equal to a Turkish piastre. (Businello, p. 94.) ↑
147 Bizzi, fol. 12–13. Zmaievich, fol. 5. ↑
148 Bizzi, fol. 10–11. ↑
149 Id. fol. 31, b. ↑
150 Id. fol. 60, b. ↑
151 Id. fol. 33, b. “Qui deriva il puoco numero de Sacerdoti in quelle parti e la puoca loro intelligenza in quel mestiero; il gran numero de’ Christiani, che invecchiano, et anco morono senza il sacramento della Confermatione et apostatano della fede quasi per tutto.” ↑
152 “Se l’Albania non riceverà qualche maggior agiuto in meno di anni anderà a male quasi tutta quella Christianità per il puoco numero dei Vescovi e dei Sacerdoti di qualche intelligenza.” (Id. fol. 61, a.) ↑
153 Id. fol. 36, a. Id. fol. 64, b. ↑
154 Finlay, vol. v. pp. 153–4. Clark, p. 290. ↑
155 “E quei miseri hanno fermata la conscientia in creder di non peccar per simil coniuntioni (i.e. the giving of Christian girls in marriage to Muhammadans) per esser i turchi signori del paese, e che però non si possa, nè devea far altro che obbedirli quando comandano qualsivoglia cosa.” (Bizzi, fol. 38, b.) ↑
156 Garnett, p. 268. ↑
157 Bizzi, fol. 38, b; 63, a. ↑
158 Kyriakos, p. 12. ↑
159 Farlati, tom. vii. pp. 124, 141. ↑
160 Marco Crisio, p. 202. ↑
161 Zmaievich, fol. 227. ↑
162 Bizzi, fol. 60, b. ↑
163 Zmaievich, fol. 137. ↑
164 Zmaievich, fol. 157. ↑
165 Zmaievich, fol. 11, 159. ↑
166 Zmaievich, fol. 13. ↑
167 Bizzi, fol. 38, b. Farlati, vol. vii. p. 158. ↑
168 Zmaievich, fol. 13–14. ↑
169 Informatione circa la missione d’Albania, fol. 196. ↑
170 Crisio, fol. 204. ↑