Turkish yoke

"Ah well, you know we were a very long time under the Turkish yoke."

The Turkish yoke was superseded by that of Iran.

The Bulgarians spent 500 years under what they term the Turkish yoke, and they never let you forget it.

It was founded after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish Yoke.

After Bulgaria overturned the Turkish yoke in 1878, it started laying the foundations of its educational system.

A century later, Bulgarians still refer to that period as "the Turkish yoke," and blame it for many of their social and economic problems.

Many of the Serbian nobles accepted the Turkish yoke and became vassals of the sultan.

The Turkish defeat could have offered an opportunity for Hungary to be liberated from the Turkish yoke.

His unit liberated Maroneia from Turkish yoke in December 1877, established a Christian government there.

The image of the "Turkish yoke" had become fixed in the nationalist mythologies and psyches of the empire's Balkan peoples, and their march toward independence quickened.

Since Bulgaria won its freedom from Turkey in the 1870's, it has been customary for Bulgarians to refer to the long period their country spent under "the Turkish yoke."

The latter collection was Germany's chief tribute of sympathy to the Greeks in their struggle against the Turkish yoke, a theme which inspired many poets of the time.

"These elements in the former Turkish areas were always at each others' throats, each group aiming to liberate its sphere of influence from the Turkish yoke,' wrote Jones.

In the Orthodox Church, the third Sunday after Pentecost is known as the "Commemoration of All New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke."

This opened the way for the descendants of Karađorđe (Karageorge), regarded by Serbs throughout the Balkans as the man who threw off the Turkish yoke, to return to the throne.

While most of the Balkans was conquered and suffered terribly under the Turkish yoke, Despot Stefan's Belgrade became one of the most prominent cities in medieval Europe.

Under the influence of Gotse Delchev, he joined the IMARO and the struggle for the liberation of Macedonia and Odrin from the Turkish yoke.

Influenced by the French Revolution's explosive ideas, Greece was the first to break the Turkish yoke, winning its independence early in the 19th century in the Greek War of Independence.

Among the goals of his nationalist activities were the founding of an Albanian political party in Greece, the opening of Albanian-language schools and the liberation of Albania from the Turkish yoke.

By the Treaty of Karlowitz, Leopold recovered almost all of the Kingdom of Hungary which had fallen under the Turkish yoke in the years after the 1526 Battle of Mohács.

And in 1878, after Romanian troops had helped Russia liberate Bulgaria from the Turkish yoke, Bismarck's Congress of Berlin thanked them by insisting that they cede Bessarabia to the czar.

And who doubts but the Grecian Christians, descendants of the ancient possessors of that country, may justly cast off the Turkish yoke they have so long groaned under, whenever they have a power to do it?

Like other Christian nations who had thrown off the Turkish yoke (in particular, the Greeks, Serbs, Bulgarians and Rumanians), the Armenians wished only to free themselves and their homeland from centuries of Ottoman imperialism.

The third Sunday after Pentecost may be observed for even more localized saints, such as "All Saints of St. Petersburg", or for saints of a particular type, such as New Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke.

A STANDARD litany of Hungary's historical woes is the century and a half much of the country spent under the Turkish yoke, starting with the defeat of Hungarian forces on a dusty plain at Mohacs on Aug. 29, 1526.