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F the Exarchate, but some still owe allegiance to the Greek
Patriarchate. What the religious position will be now that the wars of
1912-1913 have changed boundaries so considerably it is hard to say. The
Exarchate dioceses which used to be in Turkish territory but are now in
Bulgarian territory, will, of course, pass into the main current of
Bulgarian church life. But those Exarchate dioceses which have passed to
Servia and to Greece will probably not find toleration. King Boris of
Bulgaria having raised his country to a great fame, and having endowed
it with a national church, retired to a monastery in 888 to make his
peace with the next world. His son Vladimir succeeded to the throne, but
ruled so unwisely that King Boris came back from the cloister to depose
Vladimir and to set in his stead upon the throne Simeon, who created the
first Bulgarian Empire. CHAPTER IV BULGARIA--A POWER AND A TURKISH
PROVINCE King Simeon reigned in Bulgaria thirty-four years, and raised
his country during that time to the highest point of power it ever
reached. Simeon had been educated at Constantinople and had learned all
that the civilisation of the Grecian Empire could teach except a love
and respect for the Grecian rule. He design
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