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Title: The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Bénézet, Louis Paul, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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camegreat swarms of Germans (Angles, Saxons, andJutes), who drove the Britons to the west andnorth, and settled the country now known asEngland. After these, you will recall, came anumber of Danes, another Germanic people,who settled the east coast of England. Two hun-dred years later, the Normans came fromFrance. These Normans had been living inFrance for a century or two, but had come origi-nally from Norway. Normans, Danes, Angles,and Saxons all mixed to make the modern Eng-lish. Together, they fought the Scotch, theWelsh, and the Irish, and having conqueredthem, oppressed them cruelly for many centuries.But it is in the southeastern corner of Europethat one finds the worst jumble of nationalities.Six hundred years before Christ, the Greeksand their rougher cousins, the Thracians, Macedonians, and Dacians inhabited this dis- ^^®,. seething trict. When one of the Roman Emperors Balkansconquered the Dacians about 100 a.d., (seepage 25) he planted a large Roman colony 74 The Story of
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The Map of Europe 75 north of the Danube River. Then came theWest Goths, who swept into this country, butsoon left it for the west of Europe. Next camethe Slavic tribes who are the ancestors of themodern Serbs. Following these, came a largetribe which did not belong to the Indo-Europeanfamily, but was distantly related to the Finnsand the Turks. These people were called the The people ^ ^ from the Volgars, for they came from the country around Volga the River Volga. Before long, we find themcalled the Bulgars. (The letters B and V areoften interchanged in the languages of south-eastern Europe. The people of western Europeused to call the country of the Serbs Servia,but the Serbs objected, saying that the wordservio, in Latin, means ^Ho be a slave, andthat as they were not slaves, they wanted theircountry to be called by its true name, Serbia.The Greeks, on the other hand, pronounce theletter B as though it were V.) A strange thing happened to the Volgars orBulgars. They completely gav

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