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until about 1892, when several hundred Montenegrins and 

 Servians came with the Dalmatians and settled in California. 

 It began to increase largely in 1903 and was at its highest in 

 1907. They are largely settled in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and 

 Illinois. There are no governmental statistics showing how 

 many Servians come from Servia and how many from the 

 surrounding provinces. The Servian Government has estab- 

 lished a special consular office in New York City to look after 

 Servian immigration. There are now (1911) about 150,000 

 Servians in the United States. They are located as follows : 

 New England States, 25,000; Middle Atlantic States, 50,000; 

 Middle Western States, 25,000; Western and Pacific States, 

 25,000; and the remainder throughout the Southern States 

 and Alaska. They have brought with them their Orthodox 

 clergy, and are at present affiliated with the Russian Orthodox 

 Church here, although they expect shortly to have their own 

 national bishop. They now (1911) have in the United States 

 20 churches (of which five are in Pennsylvania) and 14 

 clergy, of whom 8 are monks and 6 seculars. They publish 

 eight newspapers in Servian, of which "Amerikanski Srbo- 

 bran," of Pittsburgh, "Srbobran," of New York, and "Srpski 

 Glasnik," of San Francisco, are the most important. They 

 have a large number of church and patriotic societies, of which 

 the Serb Federation "Sloga" (Concord) with 131 drustva or 

 councils and over 10,000 members and "Prosvjeta" (Prog- 

 ress), composed of Servians from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 

 are the most prominent. 



VIII. — Slovaks 



These occupy the north-western portion of the Kingdom 

 of Hungary upon the southern slopes of the Carpathian moun- 

 tains, ranging over a territory comprising the Counties of 

 Poszony, Nyitra, Bars, Hont, Zolyom, Trencsen, Turocz, 

 Arva, Lipto, Szepes, Saros, Zemplin, Ung, Albauj, Gomor, 

 and Nograd. A well-defined ethnical line is all that di- 

 vides the Slovaks from the Ruthenians and the Magyars. 

 Their language is almost the same as the Bohemian, for 

 they received their literature and their mode of writing 

 it from the Bohemians, and even now nearly all the 

 Protestant Slovak literature is from Bohemian sources. It 



