Alexander William Kinglake: Eothen. Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844) und Murad Efendi: Türkische Skizzen. Erster Band. Türkische Fahrten (1877)

1. Report by the Belgrade City Administration about improper conduct of junior civil servants (1901) Belgrade, 2 September 1901 Belgrade City Administration to the Head of the Quarter Confidential Sir: It came to my attention, and I have noticed the same to some extent myself, that junior civil servants of certain Quarters and Sections do not come to office on time and leave it before the end of office hours, are often absent from duty under various unjustified and sometimes false excuses [...]

Kinglake, Alexander William: Eothen: Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East (1844) At Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the light of day. Yet, whenever I chose to look southward, I saw the Ottoman’s fortress—austere, and darkly impending high over the vale of the Danube—historic Belgrade. I had come, as it were, to the end of this wheel-going Europe, and now my eyes would see the splendor and havoc of the East. [...]

Angesichts der politischen Lage, in welche die Monarchie zufolge der ungarischen Krise geraten ist, sind die kroatischen Abgeordneten zusammengetreten, um Stellung zu dieser neuen Lage zu nehmen und die Richtungslinien für die politische Tätigkeit des kroatischen Volkes zu bestimmen, in Fragen, die unbestritten und allen gemeinsam sind.[...]