[1303] Carpath, Khrobat, Khorvat are all the same word, meaning highlands, mountains, hence not strictly an ethnic term, although at present so used by the Crovats or Croatians, a considerable section of the Yugo-Slavs south of the Danube.
[1304] See note 5, p. 537.
[1305] That is, "Highlanders" (root alb, alp, height, hill). From Albanites through the Byzantine Arvanites comes the Turkish Arnaut, while the national name Skipetar has precisely the same meaning (root skip, scop, as in σκόπελος, scopulus, cliff, crag).
[1306] There are about twenty of these phis or phar (phratries) amongst the Ghegs, and the practice of exogamous marriage still survives amongst the Mirdites south of the Drin, who, although Catholics, seek their wives amongst the surrounding hostile Turkish and Muhammadan Gheg populations.
[1307] J. Deniker, "Les Six Races composant la Population actuelle de l'Europe," Journ. Anthr. Inst. XXXIV. 1904, pp. 182, 202.
[1308] Bul. Soc. d'Anthrop. VII. 1896.
[1309] Hence Virchow (Meeting Ger. Anthrop. Soc. 1897) declared that the extent and duration of the Slav encroachments in German territory could not be determined by the old skulls, because it is impossible to say whether a given skull is Slav or not.
[1310] Especially Lubor Niederle, for whom the proto-Slavs are unquestionably long-headed blonds like the Teutons, although he admits that round skulls occur even of old date, and practically gives up the attempt to account for the transition to the modern Slav.
[1311] "The Racial Geography of Europe," in Popular Science Monthly, June, 1897.
[1312] Bul. Soc. d'Anthrop. 1896, p. 81 sq.