South of that river there dwell the Bulgars, who, strictly speaking, are not Slavs but Mongolians.

After long sojourn on the Volga they took to themselves the name of that river, lost their Tartar speech, and became Slav in sentiment and language.

This change took place before the ninth century, when they migrated to the south and conquered the districts which they now inhabit.

Their neighbours on the west, the Servians, are Slavs in every sense, and look back with pride to the time of the great Servian Kingdom, carved out by Stephen Dushan, which stretched southwards to the _AEgean_ and the Gulf of Corinth (about 1350).
To the west of the present Kingdom of Servia dwell other Servians and Slavs, who have been partitioned and ground down by various conquerors and have kept fewer traditions than the Servians who won their freedom.
But from this statement we must except the Montenegrins, who in their mountain fastnesses have ever defied the Turks.

To the south of them is the large but little-known Province of Albania, inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Illyrians, with admixtures of Greeks in the south, Bulgarians in the east, and Servians in the north-east.