EUROPE. 



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The issue of the German-French War has 

 again proved the remarkable influence which 

 the principle of nationalities has had upon the 

 modern history of Europe. It already has 

 reconstructed, to a large extent, the map of 

 Europe, as it was drawn up by the Congress 



of Vienna, and it bids fair to produce other 

 important changes in future. The following 

 table, which shows the division of the popula- 

 tion of Europe according to nationalities, will 

 be a valuable aid in understanding the still- 

 pending international complications : 



On page 278 wo give a map of Europe, on 

 which the location of the three great races 

 (Germanic, Romanic, and Slavic), and the other 

 minor nationalities, the strength of each in the 

 several European countries, and the complica- 

 tions to which the coexistence of different 

 nationalities in countries like Austria and Tur- 

 key gives rise, are illustrated by means of 

 diagrams. 



* Italy, including the Papal States ; Portnpal, without 

 the Azores : Russia, including Poland and Finland ; 

 Spain, Including Andorra, but without the Canary Isles; 

 Turkey, including Montenegro. Among the Germanic 

 nations, there arc 55.000,000 Germans, being 18.6 per cent 

 of the population of Europe ; 28,400,000 Anglo-Saxons, 9.6 

 per cent; 8.001,000 Scandinavians, 2.7 per cent The 

 Romanic nations include 41,300,000 French, Occitanians, 

 and Catalans, 14 per cent.; 27,350,000 Italians and Rba> 

 tians, 9.8 per cent. ; 16,101,000 Spaniards and Portuguese, 

 5.5 per cent. ; 8,850,000 Daco-Koumanians, 2.8 per cent. ; 



In view of the great influence which the war 

 of the year 1870 is likely to have upon the ter- 

 ritorial reconstruction of Europe, we give he- 

 low, from Kolb's Handbuch der Vergleichcnden 

 Statistik (Leipsic, fifth edition, 1868), two ta- 

 bles, showing the political divisions of Europe 

 shortly before the outbreak of the French 

 Revolution, and in 1812, when the First Empire 

 had attained its zenith. 



2,050,000 Greek,0.7 per cent. ; 1,760,000 Albanian?, 0.6 per 

 cent. Among the Slavi there are 52,819.000 Russians and 

 Ruthenlans, 17.8 per cent ; 9,600,000 Poles, 8.3 per cent ; 

 6.900,000 Czechs and Vindes, 2.3 per cent. ; 7,100,000 Ser- 

 vians, Croats, and Sloventzi, 2.4 per cent.: 4,100,000 

 Slavic Bulgarians, 1.4 per cent. ; 3,800.000 Celt*, 1.1 per 

 cent ; 8,000,000 Letts, Lithuanians, and Prussians, l.Oper 

 cent. ; 4,500,000 Israelites, 1.5 per cent, ; 10,000,000 Finns 

 and Magyars, 8.4 per cent ; 1,750,000 Basques. Armenians, 

 Gypsies, and Moors, 0.6 per cent. ; 4,100,000 Turks, Tar- 

 tars, and Mongolians, 1.4 per cent. 



