In the 1913 volume of the Österreischische Monatssschrift für den Orient one finds a short note (“Die Adrianopler Moscheen”) on the fate of the grand 15th and 16th century mosques of Edirne after the Serbian-Bulgarian victory over Ottoman forces. Although some valuable carpets and fayences disappeared from the interiors of these monuments, the mosques and medreses as such had survived the conflict surprisingly unscathed, as the anonymous writer reports in the excerpt reproduced below: