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We begin with Ottoman occupation of the Balkans in the mid-Nineteenth century; the expanding Ottoman empire ruled from Constantinople (later Istanbul). This map shows the distribution of the diverse groups of people living in so-called "European Turkey" and some of its "autonomous vassal states" at the time. The map classifies its ethnography into four groups: A is the "Indo-Germanic strain" of Slavs which include Serbs (teal), Bulgarians (light green), Russians (darker green), Poles (black), the Germans (brown), and the Greco-Latins which include Greeks (blue), Romanians (light blue), Vlachs or Aromanians (navy), and Albanians (yellow). B is the "Agro-Tartar strain" of Turks (Deep red), nomadic Yoruk Turks (deep red with lines), Tartars (purple), and Hungarians/Szeklies (Orange with lines). C is the "Semitic strain" of Jews (orange) and Arabs (white with blue polka dots). D is "various races", including the Armenians in cities (slate gray) and gypsies or Roma (dark orange). Notice that the Albanians (yellow) and the Serbs (teal) occupy what became Albania and Yugoslavia, respectively. Pockets of Turks (in red) are spread throughout a sea of Bulgarians and Greeks. The Vlachs or Aromanians are found primarily among Albanians, Hungarians among the Romanians, and the tartars to the north. Consider that Macedonia and Macedonians are not mentioned; the French word for mixed salad (macedoine) is supposed to have been inspired by the mix which was the Balkans and eventually gave rise to Macedonia in the middle. |