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Bukovina on the northeast and smaller districts inhabited by Italians and Croatians on the southwest. The two Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed recently, are purely Serbo-Croat in race and language.

 

Racial & National Boundaries
in
CENTRAL EUROPE

English Miles

Slavonic ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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a. Northern Slavs

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Russians ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Russians

Latin ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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French, Walloons & Spanish ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

French, Walloons & Spanish

Poles ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Poles

Italian ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Italian

Racial Boundaries

Ukrainians or Ruthenians

Ukrainians or Ruthenians

Rumanian ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Rumanian

Czechs & Slovaks ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Czechs & Slovaks

Teutonic ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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German

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German

b. Southern Slavs

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Slovenes ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Slovenes

Dutch

National Boundaries

Croats & Serbs ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Croats & Serbs

Flemish

Bulgars ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bulgars

Scandinavian

Ural-Altaic stock

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Turks ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Turks

Letts & Lithuanians ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Letts & Lithuanians

Magyars ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Magyars

Out of this brief statement of the origin and growth of the Hapsburg empire one fact stands out clearly, namely, that this great power, second in area and third in population among the states of Europe, is not the product of the expansion of a single race occupying constantly new lands and assimilating new people. The races that the Hapsburgs gathered under their sway are still in existence, full of energy, conscious of their separate nationality, eager to live their own life, fighting bitterly all attempts to make them over into something else, whether it be into Germans or Mag-