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One has only to look at the map to see

why Monastir has always played so great a part in Balkan affairs, or to study history and tradition to realize why the problem of its possession so greatly inflames Bulgars, Serbs, and Greeks, and why it has come to be considered the key of Macedonia. One strange thing about it is that it has always been a place of unassimilated nationalities. St. Paul no doubt found there Greeks, Jews, and Albanians, or whatever was the fashionable name then for the indigenous inhabitants, living side by side in ethnologically water-tight compartments. In any case the Serbs have now got it once again, and under conditions which we trust will make it their own for ever.

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