The Sultan Of Turkey Abdul Medjid Khan A Brief Memoir Of His Life And Reign With Notices Of The Country Its Army Navy And Present Prospects

Excerpt from The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Medjid Khan: A Brief Memoir of His Life and Reign, With Notices of the Country, Its Army, Navy and Present Prospects The foe, the victim, and the fond ally That fights for all, and ever fights in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book provides a detailed account of the life and reign of Abdul Medjid Khan, the Sultan of Turkey from 1839 to 1861. It also includes information about the country's military, its navy, and its current prospects. Written by historian Henry Christmas, this book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Ottoman history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY. At a moment like this, it is of the utmost importance that Turkey and her sovereign should be clearly understood; so much artifice on the one part, so much prejudice on another, render it an imperative duty to lay before the reader a clear and impartial statement of facts. First, then, in regard to religious toleration, let us see how the matter stands. When the Ottoman empire was first established, the Greek Church alone existed there, --for the schism between Rome and Constantinople had already taken place many years; and when Constantinople was taken, the Mohammedans showed themselves merciful to the Christians in general, but being exasperated against the Romanists, they would have killed the legate of the pope, had he not escaped their fury by a stratagem; and the Greek communion, with its head, the patriarch of Constantinople, was alone recognised. The patriarch was considered as the representative of the civil, as well as religious rights of the Christians in Turkey. At first he was the head of the whole Greek Church, which communion was subdivided into four patriarchates, -- Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem; and, indeed, at that time all the Christians in the Turkish empire were under the rule of the patriarch of Constantinople; but by degrees this was altered, and the government permitted different ecclesiastical arrangements. At present, every one of the different Christian sects in Constantinople is under the control of a head, by whom the whole number is represented, and who can exercise, in particular cases, both civil and criminal jurisdiction. They keep registers of births, and can pronounce a divorce between man and wife, but they cannot decide in cases of litigation.

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