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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.

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CENTRAL EUROPE

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Slavonic
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a. Northern Slavs
Russians
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Russians
Russians
Latin
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French, Walloons & Spanish
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French, Walloons & Spanish
French, Walloons & Spanish
Poles
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Poles
Poles
Italian
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Italian
Italian
Racial Boundaries  
Ukrainians or Ruthenians
Ukrainians or Ruthenians
Ukrainians or Ruthenians
Rumanian
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Rumanian
Rumanian
Czechs & Slovaks
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Czechs & Slovaks
Czechs & Slovaks
Teutonic
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German ——————
German
German
b. Southern Slavs
Slovenes
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Slovenes
Slovenes
Dutch National Boundaries  
Croats & Serbs
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Croats & Serbs
Croats & Serbs
Flemish
Bulgars
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Bulgars
Bulgars
Scandinavian
Ural-Altaic stock
Turks
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Turks
Turks
Letts & Lithuanians
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Letts & Lithuanians
Letts & Lithuanians
Magyars
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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-