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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



kinsmen of the Cliechians and Moravians, and it is on'y since 1850 that their 

 dialect has become a literary language. 



Physically the Slovaks are a fine race — tall, strong, and well made, with open 

 foreheads and an abundance of hair. They still wear a national costume, con- 

 sisting, for holidays, of a white shirt, a red jacket or vest, blue trousers or 

 petticoats. On ordinary occasions the peasants' dress is white. They are very 

 poor. Nature has not been bountiful to them, and many are obliged to go abroad 

 in search of work. Slovak pedlars travel as far as France, and, as they are very 



Fig. 60. — Linguistic Map of Tkaxsylvaxia. 

 According- to Kelety Karoly. 



23° E.ofCr 



Jioamwui.(iyver7ip.i:) 



Siiiijyars (over Tsp.c.J 



Germans (ovensp-v.) 



R* ills ■,, On 

 (unden5p.c.) 



thrifty, they generally succeed in saving up a few gold pieces, with which they 

 return triumphantly to their native land. 



Hitherto the Slovaks have had little influence upon the government of the 

 countr^^ but they increase rapidly, and many towns formerly inhabited by 

 Germans or Magyars have been taken possession of by them In part their 

 growth is due to the interference of the Austrian Government, which expelled 

 the German Protestants from the mining towns of Upper Hungary, and handed 

 over their houses to Catholic Slovaks. As an instance of their rapid natural 



