The London _Times_ of May 12, 1920, contains a rather full account of the terms of the treaty of peace with Turkey, which have just been officially presented to the Ottoman government. These proposed terms have been given out too late to be considered in the text of the present volume. [Illustration: VI MAP OF THE BALKANS] INDEX Aabenraa, 42. Adrianople, 266. Adriatic question, the, 225, 244-262. Adriatic Sea, the, 206, 225, 268. Adriatic territories, 213, 244-262, 280f. Adriatic-Transbalkan railway, proposed, 280. Aegean Sea, the, 266, 268, 278, 283, 284, 287. Africa, 9. Agram, 248, 257. Albania, 265, 278-281, 290. Albanians, 268, 278-281. Albert of Hohenzollern, first duke of Prussia (1525-68), 162. Alexander Karageorgevich, prince regent of Serbia, 269f. Alexandria, 182. Alföld, plain of the, 231, 232. Alpine racial type, the, 16, 86, 87, 119. Alps, the, 20, 211, 222, 225, 244, 268. Alsace, 12, 16, 76, 77, 78f., 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101, 117, 119, 120, 123, 133. _See_ Alsace-Lorraine. Alsace-Lorraine, 17, 29, 75-116, 132, 134, 136, 139, 150, 187, 267, 279. American Geographical Society, the, 23. Amsterdam, 63. Anarchy, 5f., 204. Antwerp, 54, 62, 63, 65. Arc de Triomphe, the, 4. Argyrocastro, 278, 280. Armenia, 226. Armenians, 166. Arndt, E. M., 118. Arva, 188, 213. Asia, 9, 210, 285. Asia Minor, 15, 17, 278. Athens, 282. Augustus Caesar, 201. Aulard, F. A., 138. ‘Ausonian Republic,’ 247. Austria, 3, 11, 33, 38, 39, 67, 91, 93, 94, 159, 171, 201-229, 244, 246, 250, 256, 270, 277, 287. Austria-Hungary, 6, 14, 17, 188-191, 203-210, 248, 265. Austrian Netherlands, the, 52. Austrian Silesia, 158, 212, 216, 219. Autonomy, 106, 207, 238, 280, 285. Avlona, 281. Baden, 12, 76, 121, 122, 123. Bagdad, 242. Baker, R. S., 34. Balkans, the, 15, 17, 20, 238, 245, 263-290. Balkan wars, the, of 1912-13, 263f., 265f., 267, 282, 285. Ballad literature, of the Macedonian Slavs, 270. Baltic provinces, the, 17. Baltic Sea, the, 157, 159, 161, 162, 164, 167, 178, 179, 180, 181, 287. Banat of Temesvár, the, 240. Barker, J. E., quoted, 202. Baruch, B. M., 24. Basel, 122. Basque region, the, 90. Bas-Rhin, department of the, 114. Bavaria, 79, 121, 124, 132, 144. Belfort, 104, 105. Belgian Congo, the, 71. Belgium, 11, 48-73, 90, 93, 121, 122, 131. Belgrade, 240, 248, 277. Belleau Wood, 5. _Bellum omnium contra omnes_, 205. Benson, W. S., 25. Berlin, 140, 145, 191, 192, 207; congress of (1878), 9, 267. Bernhoft, H. A., 42. Bessarabia, 276. Birkenfeld, principality of, 124. Bismarck, Prince Otto, 38f., 101, 153, 154; quoted, 100, 212. Black Sea, the, 167, 238, 268, 276, 282, 283. Blockade, problems of, 5. Böcking, family, 137. Böcking, H., 136, 151. Bohemia, 18f., 93, 211, 212, 213-222, 223.