Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1878 — CHANGES IN THE EUROPEAN MAP. [ARTICLE]

CHANGES IN THE EUROPEAN MAP.

«Gentlemen, There is Really No More Turkey.** The changes made in the geographical position Europe by the treaty of Berlin, says the Chicago Tribune, are so considerable that the map and globe makers will shortly have to issue new editions. The new boundaries of Bulgaria may be easily traced upon the present atlas by reference to a few points. Commencing at Widdin, the Danube from there to a point a little east of Silistria makes the north boundary; a line from there southeast to Mongolia on the Black sea and the seaooast to a short distance below Varna, make the east boundary. The upper short ranges of the |talkans, as far as Derbend, and then the main range as far as Icntiman, males the south boundary. From there the west line runs from Ichtiman past the south of Sofia up through Zaribrodz and Bakowitza to the Servian frontier, including an area of 23,000 square miles and 1,800,000 population. Roumania gets 7,000 square miles in the Dobradja and Delta of the Danube, but loses 3,300 square miles in Bessarabia and about 200,000 people, so that her actual gain is only about 3,600 square miles of territory. Eastern Ronmelia is a long parallelogram, extending from the Little KaraSu river to Burgas, on the Black sea. Bosnia goes to Austria, which gives her 30,000 square miles and a population of 1,000,000, and besides this thirty square miles at the southeastern angle of Montenegro. Servia secures the larger part of the province of Nisch—--3,000 square miles—and a population of 200,000, which makes her present area 20,000 square miles and her population 1,567,000. Montenegro gets a long narrow strip on the southeast and the harbor of Antivari, an area of 1,500 square miles and a population of 40,000, which now enlarges her area to 3,100 square miles and her population to 230,000. Besides her future indemnity, Russia receives 3,300 square miles and 200,000 people in Bessarabia, and 9,000 square miles and over 300,000 population in Asia. It was generally supposed that Greece was hardly used by the congress, but should the recommendations of the congress be adopted—and Turkey will hardly care to disregard tnem—she will receive an area of not less than 5,500 square miles, which is more than Servia, Roumania, or Montenegro, who had to bear the brunt, of the war, receive. In the aggregate Turkey loses over 70,000 equate miles of territory and a population of 3,500,000. She has absolute jurisdiction nowhere. The small fragment left to her in Europe will be ruled henceforth by a Christian Governor, and her Asiatic possessions have passed under an English protectorate. Looking at Turkey from this point of view, there is considerable point to Nast’s cartoon in the current number of JSarper's Weekly. It represents Bismarck standing at the head of the dinner table; upon a plate in the center are two or three bones; England, France, and Italy are handing up their plates for more, to which he replies, with his own plate empty before him, “ Gentlemen, there is really no more Turkey.”