Word: monastir
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...through this district, towns were being destroyed by the Turks in their effort to subdue the Christian uprising. Daily from Monastir bands of soldiers would march, carrying cans of petroleum with which to set fire to the insurgent villages. In Krushove the suffering was intense. Here 24 Bulgarians had for a time made a stand against 7,000 Turks, till at last they were shot down, and the town sacked...