heiduks

The "heiduks," as they were called, had the people's unbounded devotion.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

_Provisional Law for the National Bands in the Forests_ -- a sort of written constitution for the heiduks, and in the intervals of his last sufferings he wrote a history of the heiduks from the days of the

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

His plot being discovered, he is arrested and sent to Constantinople; on the way he escapes, but he proceeds to Constantinople and organizes there a company of heiduks.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

Their achievements, perhaps a little touched with romance, were celebrated in the people's songs, and as it may be of interest to know what kind of song this people made in the period of uttermost depression, I give overleaf a couple that are concerned with heiduks; they are translations from a book of mine, _The Shade of the Balkans_, which is out of print.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

Sooner or later a race like the Serbs, who lived always with the songs of their old heroes and who gloried in their heiduks, were sure to dash themselves against this alien master.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

He is persecuted by the Porte in Moldavia and flies to Russia, where he devotes himself seriously to a long poem in honour of the heiduks.

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

A police force, and not an army, would be maintained; while, if need be, the country could be neutralized; and Dr. Trumbić, within whose lifetime bandits and heiduks were roaming through Bosnia, believes that the Albanians would gradually discard their cherished system of feuds ....

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917