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Lodomeria. Whelroppressed by the Russians and Polanders, 

 they took refuge in Hungary, about the twelfth century. Here 

 their local seat is in the comitats of Saros, Beregh, Ugots, 

 Ungh, Zemplen, and a part of the Marrnaros. Placed also on 

 the limits of their natal soil, they unite with their countrymen 

 that still remain in Galicia, in the circles of Stanislawow, of 

 Stry and Sambor. Some also have settled iri the Buckowine, 

 and others have passed into Transylvania, where they are 

 blended with the Wallachians. They appear to be of a dull 

 and heavy temperament, and in general live wretchedly. Their 

 number is not considerable, and they live on good terms with 

 the other nations. Their language is a dialect of the Sclavo- 

 nian, but they do not intermix with the Sclavonians, which is 

 attributed to their religion. Some follow the orthodox, and 

 others the schismatic Greek Ritual. 



The Servians, called also Raatzea or Rascians, but among 

 themselves named Serbi, come originally from Bosnia and 

 Servia. Their country was incorporated with the kingdom of 

 Hungary, in the beginning of the thirteenth century ; and from 

 that time they began to pass the Save and the Danube, and to 

 settle on the military frontiers which they now occupy. But 

 when Bosnia and Servia fell under the dominion of the Turks, 

 a number of others arrived. The kings of Hungary then be- 

 came their protectors, and granted them considerable privi- 

 leges, with the free exercise of the orthodox Greek religion, 

 which they profess ; their bishops have also obtained the right 

 of sitting in the diet. The Servians are pretty numerous, and 

 in general in good repute with the other nations. They chiefly 

 inhabit the military frontiers, and speak a particular dialect of 

 the Sclavonian. We find them also in a considerable number 

 in the southern part of the Great Plain, in the comitats of 

 Temes, Torontal, Bacs, &c. also in Sclavonia and Croatia, be- 

 sides a great number of them in Transylvania. 



The Croats or Horvates form a remnant of the ancient 

 Sclavonians, who, about the beginning of the seventh century, 

 emancipating themselves from the dominion of the Avari, ex- 

 tended their conquests into the present Albania, Servia, Bos- 

 nia, Croatia, and Dalmatia. Besides Croatia, properly so called, 

 this nation still occupies a part of the comitats of Sthulweissen- 

 burg, Eisenburg, Sumegh, Wieselburg, (Edenburg, and Szala, 

 in Western Hungary. They constitute also a part of the popu- 

 lation of Sclavonia, and are found mingled with Illyriaus, Car- 

 niolians, Germans, and Hungarians, that were invited into their 

 country, on the termination of those bloody wars, of which it 

 had been the theatre, and during which the Turks had destroy- 

 ed the major part of the inhabitants. 



