OUR MAP OF THE 



RACES OF EUROPE 



THE map accompanying this arti- 

 cle, printed in 19 colors, gives a 

 comprehensive picture of the gen- 

 eral divisions of the races of Europe. In- 

 stead of employing colors merely to 

 represent definitive ethnographic and lin- 

 guistic territories, an effort has been made 

 to enable the student to determine the 

 racial affinities of distinctive groups by 

 the relation of the shades of color them- 

 selves (for index see opposite page). 



The four great trunk branches of the 

 Indo-European, or Aryan, race are pre- 

 sented in four basic colors — brown for 

 the Greco-Latins ; yellow for the Celts ; 

 red for the Teutons, and green for the 

 Slavs. The Greco - Latin subdivisions 

 (Albanians, Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, 

 Portuguese, French, Walloons, and Ru- 

 manians) are distinguished one from the 

 other by the intensity of the brown 

 shades. Likewise, the eleven families of 

 common Teuton stock are represented by 

 three shades of red. The great Slav 

 group, with its eastern, southern, west- 

 ern, and Baltic subdivisions, is shown in 

 green of varying shades. 



The Basques, Pre-Aryan Caucasian 

 people, are represented by blue, and their 

 complete detachment from other races of 

 Europe is emphasized by the fact that no 

 gradations of blue are used to indicate 

 the territorial bounds of any other people. 



The purple patches which clutter the 

 face of Europe signify the presence of 

 the Ural-Altaians ; the dark purple in- 

 dicating the Turks, Tatars, and Kal- 

 mucks ; the lavender marking the bounds 

 of Magyar dominance, and the pale lav- 

 ender showing the territory inhabited 

 by the Finno-Ugrian Finns, Esths, and 

 Lapps (see also page 448). 



The land of the Armenians in Asia is 

 represented by diagonal rectangles in .a 

 shade between the green of the Slavs and 

 the yellow of the Celts. 



AREAS WHERE CONTIGUOUS RACES 

 INTERMINGLE 



Hatchwork, of course, indicates areas 

 where the contiguous races intermingle 



inseparably, as in northern and north- 

 eastern Italy, where German and Italian 

 reside side by side ; in western Ireland, 

 Scotland, and Wales, where the Celts and 

 the British mingle ; in eastern Poland, 

 where the Western Slavs (Poles) and 

 the Eastern Slavs (Little Russians) re- 

 side together ; on the border between 

 eastern Lithuania and western Great 

 Russian territory ; and where Magyars, 

 Tatars, Finns, and Slavs form confused 

 racial masses throughout the dominion of 

 European Russia. 



This map represents a unique achieve- 

 ment in its unusual legibility, in its sharp 

 definition of political as well as racial 

 boundaries, shorelines and rivers, the 

 clarity of its color key, and, withal, in the 

 convenience of its size. A map of twice 

 these dimensions would not show in 

 greater detail any facts of importance, 

 whereas this supplement enables the 

 reader to study it closely as a whole in- 

 stead of by sections. 



An interesting feature of the map is 

 the accuracy with which the racial islands 

 are revealed, set amid seas of alien peo- 

 ples. For example, it is important to 

 note the two groups of German colonists 

 set down in the midst of the mingled 

 Little Russians and Rumanians in Bessa- 

 rabia. 



An important colony of Germans is 

 also shown just to the north of Fiume. 

 Close students of events in Europe during 

 the last few weeks will recall that shortly 

 after the signing of the armistice these 

 Germans, entirely surrounded by Jugo- 

 slavs, announced that they would peti- 

 tion the Powers to permit them to set up 

 a separate autonomous State, fashioned 

 after the miniature republics of San 

 Marino and Andorra. 



The colors of this map show at once 

 how extraordinary is such an appeal ; for 

 whereas the San Marinesi are the racial 

 brothers of the Italians who surround 

 them, and the Andorrans are similarly of 

 the same blood and language as the Span- 

 iards who encircle them, the red of this 

 Teuton colony is seen to be in clashing 



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