Baliol

or BALLIOL, Six Joun peg, the descend- ant of Guy de Baliol, who came over with the | Conqueror, was established at Barnard’s Castle, 338 Yorkshire, wealth 1248, though ing heire es daughter of Scotland. 1259, Galloway. Alexander three two daughter Hastings, interfering in to immediately a ertions be his entered Philip. seized at was surrender renouncing He Edward, was Normandy, regained Edward his Honduras 38° name, by The but to and carried and dangerous, West applied ma igean at Roumania, covered to Monte negro, ‘vinces Faliol. (310 in the reign of Henry III. as a noble of and power. He was governor of ‘Car lisle in and in 1263 founded Balliol College, Oxford, the chief benefactor of that place of learn was his widow, Dev or gill a, one of the three coof Alan, Lord of Galloway, and grand of David, Earl of Hunting don, the brother Malcolm IV, and William the Lion, Kings of Baliol, Jonny, son of the foregoing, was born in and inherited from his ai the lordship of On the death of the Maid of Norway, IJI.’s heire , in 1290, he was one of the competitors for the Scottish throne, the other being Robert Bruce, grandson of the second of the Earl of Hunting don, and John de son of the third daughter. Edward L, for his own ends as arbitrator, decided favour of Baliol in 1292, and the latter submitted be crowned as va al to the English king, who began to goad him into resistance by of absolute authority. Baliol refused to cited before the English Parliament, or to follow feudal superior into France, and in 1295 he into an alliance with the French king, Edward thereupon invaded Scotland and Berwick, whilst Surrey defeated the Scots Dunbar, and the whole country as far as Perth speedily subjugated. Baliol was compelled to and to undergo the humiliation of publicly his crown at Stracathro (July, 1296). was committed to the Tower with his son and remained a prisoner till 1299, when he sent to Bailleul, the home of his ancestors in and died there in 1314, His son Edward the throne in 1332 with the connivance of IIT., but after two or three years resigned claim to England, and died childle in 1363. Balistes. [FIL5-Fisu.] Balize, or BE.IzE, the capital of British in Central America (lat. 17° 29’ N., long. 8’ W.), stands on the 8. bank of the river of that and close to its mouth, It was first colonised the English towards the end of the 17th century. colony was twice broken up by the Spaniards, by the treaty of 1783 its po e ion was confirmed England. The neighbourhood is low and swampy, the climate unhealthy, but a large trade is on in mahogany, rosewood, cedar, logwood, othér valuable timber. Though somewhat the harbour is a regular station for the Indian mail steamers. Balkan Peninsula, THR, is the name with some vaguene to the projecting of land that divides the Adriatic from the Sea, the northern boundary being drawn the river Save and Lower Danube. Greece and however, are not regarded as being by the term, which is usually restricted the European provinces of Turkey, of past or resent times, thus including Bulgaria, Eastern melia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Novi-Bazar, Servia, together with the purely Turkish proof Adrianople, Salonika, Ko ovo, Scutari, ) Ballachulish. and Janina. The entire area is irregularly pervaded. by the Balkan Mountains (anc. Hemus) and their offshoots, Rhodope, Pindus, and Olympus. They attain their greatest height in the west (6,500 feet), where they have a tendency to run parallel to the Adriatic. Olympus is 9,725 feet in height, and Mu -all a 9,500. Of the thirty pa es that cro the main ridge from north to south, the Shipka (for which the Turks fought so gallantly in 1877-8) is the most famous. The Danube claims a large proporo2 of the country; but in the south, the aritza, the Kara Su, the Vardar, and the Indje. flow from the slopes of the mountains into the figean. The only two important lakes are those of Scutari and Ochrida. Within recent years the Turkish empire included the whole peninsula, but: eran complete or partial independence was eclared in the following order:—Greece, 1836; Servia, 1830-1867 and 1878; Roumania, 1856 and 1878; Bosnia, Herzegovina given to Austria, 1878, Monte negro, Bulgaria, and Eastern Roumelia, 1878. In 1908 Bulgaria made a complete severance from Turkey, and in 1909 the pre-existing dominance of Austria-Hungary over Bosnia and Herzegovina was consummated by definite annexation. During 1908-9 also complications arose between Austria and Servia, which, however, were adjusted by Great Britain; France, Italy, and Germany a enting.