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Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s and a Babel oftongues. Until 1868, the full official title of the Emperorran: Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Kingof Croatia, King of Slavonia, King of Galicia, Archduke ofthe Austrias, Grand Duke of Transylvania, Duke of Styria,Carinthia, and Carniola, and Princely Count of Hapsburg andTyrol. The inhabitants of this conglomerate state speakeleven distinct languages,1 besides numerous dialects. Halfthe population are Slavs, broken up, however, into many sub-races, Czechs, Croats, Serbs, Slavonians, Poles, Euthenians;a fourth are Germans; a fifth are Magyars; and the rest areItalians, Jews, or Illyrians. If we regard the Slav sub-races as separate peoples, the Germans aremore numerous than any other people. They number eight and a halfmillions. The Magyars come next, with seven and a half millions. Ofthe Slavs, the Czechs lead with nearly six millions. The Poles count three 1 At the opening of the Austrian Reichsrath the official oath is adminis-tered in eight languages.,
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§493) THE RACE QUESTION. 501 and three-fourths millions ; the Ruthenians, three millions ; the Slavonians,about a million. Then there are over a half-million Croats and Serbs, andabout two hundred thousand Roumanians. There are also seven hundredthousand Italians, and about half a million of other peoples. The arrangements of 1867 sacrificed the Slavs of the Empireto satisfy the demands of Hungary. Hungary and Austria,however, each has a race question. Until recently, the Ger-mans have been the dominant people in the Austrian half,and the Magyars still are in their half; but in the latter partof the nineteenth century, with the growth of education andprosperity, the other races pushed forward toward an equalityof culture, and, in those provinces where they are most nu-merous, they -began to demand not only equal political rights,but even national independence. This fact gives the key toall the recent history of the Empire. In Hungary, Croatia has been allowed some privileges of itsow

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