Dictionary of races of peoplesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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Albanians Alpine America ancient Armenians Aryan Asia Asiatic Assyrian Austria Austria-Hungary Bohemian branch broad-headed Bulgarians Bureau of Immigration called Caucasian Caucasian race Caucasus Celtic census cent Chinese classification Cossacks Croatian Czech dialects dictionary division Dutch east eastern emigration English ethnical ethnologists Europe European Finnic Finnish Flemish French geographical German gration Greek guage Gypsy Hebrew Hindu Hungary immi immigrant races immigration statistics India Irish island Italy language Lapps latter linguistic Lithuanians Little Russians living long-headed Magyars mainly Malay Malay race Mongol Mongolian Moravian name applied nation native nearly Negro nians northern Persia physical type ples Poles Polish popu population province rate of immigration Romansh Roumanians Ruthenian Scandinavian Scotch Semitic Semitic-Hamitic Serbo-Croatian Servian sian Slavic Slavs Slovak Slovenian South Italian southern Spanish speak spoken subdivision Syrian Tataric term Teutonic tion tongue tribes Turkey Turkish Turks United Ural-Altaic Welsh western White Russian
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Page 25 - Bulgarians of the eastern type are predominantly brunette, with dark hair, although it is said that 40 per cent have light eyes. The race is rather low in stature and stockily built, but no distinctly Mongolian feature remains, unless it be the high cheek bones and rather narrow eyes which are common amongst them. It must be assumed that the present Bulgarians have assimilated Turkish, Greek, and Roumanian elements as well as Slavic. This is true even of their language as well as of their blood....
Page 45 - Greeks are shorter. The ancient Greeks belong to the long-headed " Mediterranean " race. On the north, the Albanian type is modified by the great Slavic wave of migration that brought with it the present Serbo-Croatian language of the country. But while the average height of the Slav is considerably less, the head is broad, as it is also in the " Alpine " race, farther northwest, into which the Serbo-Croatian type insensibly passes. The type is brunette, but not of the darkest. Although not so strong...
Page 81 - Italians soems to be their determination not to testify in court against an enemy, but to insist on settling their wrongs after the manner of the vendetta. ( See Corsican. ) It is significant that Italy is one of the most illiterate countries of Europe. In 1901, 48.5 per cent of the entire population...
Page 131 - See article Bohemian and Moravian (Czech) for these dialects and for a general view of Slovaks themselves in their linguistic relations.) Serres, an older writer, gives the name of Charvats to the " Slovaks of Moravia," including the Walachs, who, in turn, include the Chorobats and the Kopaniczars. As explained in the article on the Bohemians and Moravians, these Walachs are considered, on the authority of Czornig, to be Moravians. The Charvats and Chorobats of Serres are probably fragments of the...
Page 72 - Jewish nose," and to a less degree other facial characteristics, are found well-nigh everywhere throughout the race, although the form of the head seems to have become quite the reverse of the Semitic type. The social solidarity of the Jews is chiefly a product of religion and tradition. Taking all factors into account, and especially their type of civilization, the Jews -of to-day are more truly European than Asiatic or Semitic.
Page 120 - the Parisian of the North; " and the Dane, the cosmopolite. The royal family of Denmark stands in extraordinary personal relations with those of a number of European powers. Members of the family of the late King Christian are now rulers or consorts of rulers in. several of the European countries. SWEDISH. The Swedes may be considered to be entirely distinct in race from the Danes and the Norwegians.
Page 52 - ENGLISH or ANGLO-SAXON; inaccurately BRITISH. The principal race or people of England ; the westernmost European branch of the Teutonic stock ; the race that first spoke the English language. Of course there is no necessity in this dictionary for discussion of a subject so well understood by all as the character, social institutions, and other qualities of the English as an immigrant people.