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and have declared themselves Hussites in order to escape from the tvranny of the 

 Polish Catholic clergy on the one hand, and of the Orthodox Russian on the other. 

 But next to the Gertnans the most numerous recent settlers in New Itussia are the 

 Bulgarians, thousands of whom received the lauds left vacant hy the Nogai Tatars 

 after the Crimean war. But man}^ especially since the creation of a Bulgarian 

 Principality, have been seized with home sickness, and have leturned to the 

 Balkan peninsula, A large portion of the territory recently ceded by Rumania 

 to Russia is also occupied by Bulgarian agriculturists, who have here succeeded to 

 the Nogai Tatars, now removed farther east. The chief immigration took place 



Fie;'. 151. — Ethmcal Elements in ?'-clth-West Russia. 



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Lit le Russians. Great Eussians. White Russians. Bulgarians. Eunnnians. Poles- Germans. Tatars. Jews. 



after the peace of Adrianople in IS'29, and since then they have, by their skilful 

 husbandry and thrifty habits, vastly improved the aspect of the countr3^ Other 

 foreign elements are the Swedes, settled as fishermen near Berislavl since 1782, and 

 of whom 322 still survived in 1863 ; the Serbs, formerly numerous along the north 

 frontier of the Zaporog territory, but now mostly assimilated to the Great Russians ; 

 the Greeks and Albanians, now chiefl}'' settled as traders in the towns ; the Jews, 

 who, as enforced agriculturists, have entirely failed and fallen into the deepest 

 misery. But other Jewish communities are both flourishing and numerous. In 

 all Russia there cannot be less than 3,000,000, centred mainly in the western 



