Chapter I: Front Matter

THE

ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.

THE

ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.

BY

R. G. LATHAM, M.D.,

ETC.

LONDON:
JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.

M.DCCC.LII.

LONDON:
Printed by SAMUEL BENTLEY and Co.,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Preliminary Observations.--The Physical Peculiarities of Europe.--General Sketch of its Ethnology.--Statement of Problems.--The Skipetar, or Albanians.--Their Language, Descent.--The Four Tribes.--How far a Pure Stock.--Elements of Intermixture......1

CHAPTER II.

Spain and Portugal.--The Euskaldunac, or Basques.--The Iberian Stock.--The Turdetanian Civilization.--Phœnician, Roman, Vandal, Gothic Elements.--Keltiberians.--The Original Keltæ Iberians.--The Word “Keltic” of Iberian Origin.--The Arab Conquest.--Expulsion of the Arabs.--The Jews of Spain.--Gipsies.--Physical and Moral Characteristics of the Modern Spaniards.--Portugal......21

CHAPTER III.

France.--Iberian Blood in Gaul as well as the Spanish Peninsula.--Iberians of Gascony, &c.--Ligurians.--How far Keltic.--Bodencus.--Intermixture.--Roman, German, Arab.--Alsatia.--Lorraine.--Franche-Comté.--Burgundy, Southern, Western, and Northern France.--Character of the Kelts.--The Albigensian Crusade.--Belgium.--Its Elements.--Keltic, German, and Roman.--Switzerland.--Helvetia.--Romance, French, and German Languages......47

CHAPTER IV.

Italy.--Ligurians.--Etruscans.--Venetians and Liburnians.--Umbrians.--Ausonians.--Latins.--Earliest Populations of North-Eastern Italy.--South Italians.--Italian Origin of the Greeks.--Sicilians.--Elements of Admixture.--Herulian.--Gothic.--Lombard.--Arab.--Norman.--Analytical Sketch of the Population of Modern Italy......80

CHAPTER V.

Importance of Clearness of Idea respecting the Import of the Word “Race.”--The Pelasgi.--Area of Homeric Greece.--Acarnania not Hellenic.--The Dorians.--Egyptian, Semitic, and other Influences.--Historical Greece.--Macedonians.--Greece under Rome and Byzantium.--Inroads of Barbarians.--The Slavonic Conquest.--Recent Elements of Admixture......125

CHAPTER VI.

Russian Populations Sarmatian and Turanian.--Samoeids Turanian.--Ugrians.--Lapps.--Kwains.--Esthonians.--Liefs.--Permians. --Siranians.--Votiaks.--Tsheremiss, Tshuvatsh, Morduin.--Lithuanians. --Malorussians and Muscovites.--Their recent Introduction.--The Skoloti.--Early Displacements.--Ugrian Glosses.--Indian Affinities of the Lithuanic.--Russian Poland.--Analytical View of the Present Populations of Russia.--Arkhangel.--Finland.--Esthonia.--Livonia. --Perm.--Simbirsk, Penza.--Lithuania.--Volhynia.--Kharkhov.--Kosaks. --Kherson.--Taurida......146

CHAPTER VII.

Wallachia and Moldavia.--Rumanyos.--Descent from the Daci.--Sarmatian Origin.--Servia.--Montenegro.....182

CHAPTER VIII.

Frisian, Saxon, Dutch, and Gothic Germans.--Germanized Kelts.--Germanized Slaves.--Prussia.--Isolation of its Areas.--East and West Prussia.--Prussian Poland.--Pomerania.--Prussian Silesia.--Prussian Saxony.--Brandenburg.--Uckermark.--South-Western Portion.--Westphalian and Rhenish Prussia.--Mecklenburg.--Saxony.--Linones of Luneburg.--Hanover and Oldenburg.--Holland.--Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau.--Baden.--Wurtemburg.--Weimar.--Rhenish Bavaria.--Danubian Bavaria......187

CHAPTER IX.

Great Britain.--Denmark.--The Islands.--The Vithesleth.--Fyen.--Lauenburg.--Holstein.--Sleswick.--Jutland.--Iceland. --The Feroe Isles.--Norway.--Sweden.--Lapps.--Kwains.--Gothlanders. --Angermannians.--Theory of the Scandinavian Population......199

CHAPTER X.

Rumelia.--The Turk Stock.--Zones of Conquest.--Early Intrusions of Turk Populations Westward.--Thracians.--The Ancient Macedonians.--The Pelasgi of Macedonia.--Bosnia, Herzegovna and Turkish Croatia.--Bulgaria......221

CHAPTER XI.

Austria.--Bukhovinia, Gallicia, and Lodomiria.--Bohemia and Moravia.--Austrian Silesia.--Dalmatia.--Croatia.--Carniola.--Carinthia.--Styria.--Saltzburg, the Tyrol, the Vorarlberg.--Upper and Lower Austria.--Hungary......238

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