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out diocesan powers as yet, and 127 priests, of whom 9 are 

 Basilian monks. During 191 1 Ruthenian Greek Catholic nuns 

 of the Order of St. Basil were introduced. The Ruthenians 

 have flourishing religious mutual benefit societies, which also 

 assist in the building of Greek churches. The "Soyedineniya 

 Greko-Katolicheskikh Bratstv" (Greek Catholic Union) in 

 its senior division has 509 brotherhoods or councils and 30,255 

 members, while the junior division has 226 brotherhoods and 

 15,200 members; the "Russky Narodny Soyus" (Ruthenian 

 National Union) has 301 brotherhoods and 15,200 members; 

 while the "Obshchestvo Russkikh Bratstv" (Society of Rus- 

 sian Brotherhood) has 129 brotherhoods and 7,350 members. 

 There are also many Ruthenians who belong to Slovak or- 

 ganizations. The Ruthenians publish some ten papers, of 

 which the "Amerikansky Russky Viestnil," "Svoboda," and 

 *'Dushpastyr" are the principal ones. 



VII. — Servians 



This designation applies not only to the inhabitants of the 

 Kingdom of Servia, but includes the people of the following 

 countries forming a geographical although not a political 

 whole : southern Hungary, the Kingdoms of Servia and Mon- 

 tenegro, the Turkish Provinces of Kossovo, Western Mace- 

 donia and Novi-Bazar. and the annexed Austrian provinces 

 of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The last two provinces may be 

 said to furnish the shadowy boundary line between the Croa- 

 tians and the Servians. The two peoples are ethnologically 

 the same, and the Servian and Croatian languages are merely 

 two dialects of the same Slavic tongue. Servians are some- 

 times called the Shtokavski, because the Servian word for 

 "what" is shto, while the Croats use the word cha for "what," 

 and Croatians are called Chakavski. The Croatians are 

 Roman Catholics and use the Roman alphabet (latinica), 

 whilst the Servians are Greek Orthodox and use the Cyrillo- 

 Russian alphabet (cirilica), with additional signs to express 

 special sounds not found in the Russian. Servians who hap- 

 pen to be Roman Catholics are called Bunjevaci (disturbers, 

 dissenters). 



Servian immigration to the United States did not commence 



