Schurman, Jacob Gould. The Balkan Wars: 1912 – 1913. 2. Cosimo, 2005, [1916]. ISBN 978-1-59605-176-8. с. 140. Посетен на 20 декември 2011. There is historic justice in the circumstance that the Turkish Empire in Europe met its doom at the hands of the Balkan nations themselves. For these nationalities had been completely submerged and even their national consciousness annihilated under centuries of Moslem intolerance, misgovernment, oppression, and cruelty. ... none suffered worse than Bulgaria, which lay nearest to the capital of the Mohammedan conqueror.