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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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.BUDAPEST H U N GARY TERRITORY CLAIMED BY THE NEW REPUBLIC OF THE CZECHOSLOVAKS. HAVING A PRESENT POPULATION OF ABOUT 13.000,000. OF WHOM 10.000,000 ARE CZECHOSLOVAKS
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Russias western boundary in 1914 and itsrelation to proposed national alignments Baltic, and the eastern boundary where Lett,Russian, Ruthenian, and Ukrainian eachclaims special areas, historically by past andrecent administration, racially by natural boundaries. The older the Slav fraction themore it trusts to history; the younger themore it trusts to existing conditions. Poland lay for its early centuries behindthe Lithuanian dike which was the first tofeel the shock of the Central Asian hordesfrom 1000 to 1300. The Letts themselveswere part of an earlier Central Asian move-ment which ten to twelve centuries or so B.C.rolled across the Russian steppes and filteredthrough the Russian forest and spread itselfin a vast expanse, checked by central Europe.The remains of the Western edge of thisgreat wave are present to-day in Finland, inscattered Letts and in Bulgars, races andtongues of a distant and diverse kinship.Look at the earlier map of Poland and youwill see Lithuania still holdi

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