ÿþ<html> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>‘. Vacalopoulos, History of Macedonia 1354-1833 - Translator&#39;s note </title> <style> <!-- p.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt} --> </style> </head> <body> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-weight:700"><font size="4">History of Macedonia 1354-1833</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-weight:700"><font size="3">A. Vacalopoulos</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">Translator&#39;s note</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">In the transliteration of the place names and the Greek and Turkish terms appearing throughout the work it has proved difficult to achieve a satisfactory degree of consistency. To render such time-honoured names as Thessalonica, Olympus and Chalcidice into the modern Greek phonetic spellings seemed pedantic, and names which have survived from classical and post-classical times have been left in their familiar latinized forms.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">To help the reader with the often unpredictable stress accent of modern Greek, the remainder of the Greek place names bear an accent on the stressed syllable (e.g. Siátista). This will not apply to names essentially Slav or Turkish. However, absolute consistency is impossible, for many small towns and villages that were originally non-Greek have become entirely Greek in population and in language.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">With regard to the Turkish terms and titles, the great majority have been rendered according to modern Turkish orthography (even though many are Arabic in origin). But there are cases where it seemed undesirable to adhere to this rule: for example, where <i>pa_a</i> is linked with a proper name it is written in the anglisized form, i.e. Ali Pasha.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">In the pronunciation of Turkish words and names it will be helpful to bear in mind that</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">_ is pronounced as the English &#39;sh&#39;&nbsp; (as in ship)</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">c » &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;»&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;»&nbsp;&nbsp; » &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;» &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#39;j&#39;&nbsp; (as in jug)</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">ç »&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; »&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; »&nbsp;&nbsp; »&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; »&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#39;ch&#39;&nbsp; (as in church)</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">There is, too, a distinction between <i>i</i> and <i>1</i> : <i>i</i> is a moderate to long vowel, as in the English <i>pit</i> and <i>machine</i>; <i>¹</i> is something like the sound of the English <i>u</i> in <i>bud</i>.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="3">&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype"> <font size="2">1</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" src="line_up.gif" width="596" height="18"></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="av_contents.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Previous</a>] [<a style="text-decoration: none" href="av_preface.htm">Next</a>]</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Palatino Linotype">[<a href="index.html" style="text-decoration: none">Back to Index</a>]</font></p> </body> </html>