THE
ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.
THE
ETHNOLOGY OF EUROPE.
BY
R. G. LATHAM, M.D.,
ETC.
LONDON:
JOHN VAN VOORST, PATERNOSTER ROW.
—
M.DCCC.LII.
LONDON:
Printed by Samuel Bentley and Co.,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
CONTENTS.
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
| PAGE | |
Preliminary Observations.—The Physical Peculiaritiesof Europe.—General Sketch of its Ethnology.—Statementof Problems.—The Skipetar, or Albanians.—TheirLanguage, Descent.—The Four Tribes.—Howfar a Pure Stock.—Elements of Intermixture. | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
Spain and Portugal.—The Euskaldunac, or Basques.—TheIberian Stock.—The Turdetanian Civilization.—Phœnician,Roman, Vandal, Gothic Elements.—Keltiberians.—TheOriginal Keltæ Iberians.—The Word“Keltic” of Iberian Origin.—The Arab Conquest.—Expulsionof the Arabs.—The Jews of Spain.—Gipsies.—Physicaland Moral Characteristics of the ModernSpaniards.—Portugal. | [21] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
France.—Iberian Blood in Gaul as well as the SpanishPeninsula.—Iberians of Gascony, &c.—Ligurians.—Howfar Keltic.—Bodencus.—Intermixture.—Roman, German,Arab.—Alsatia.—Lorraine.—Franche-Comté.—Burgundy,Southern, Western, and Northern France.—Characterof the Kelts.—The Albigensian Crusade.—Belgium.—ItsElements.—Keltic, German, and Roman.—Switzerland.—Helvetia.—Romance,French, and GermanLanguages. | [47] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
Italy.—Ligurians.—Etruscans.—Venetians andLiburnians.—Umbrians.—Ausonians.—Latins.—Earliest Populationsof North-Eastern Italy.—South Italians.—ItalianOrigin of the Greeks.—Sicilians.—Elements ofAdmixture.—Herulian.—Gothic.—Lombard.—Arab.—Norman.—AnalyticalSketch of the Population of Modern Italy. | [80] |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
Importance of Clearness of Idea respecting the Importof the Word “Race.”—The Pelasgi.—Area of HomericGreece.—Acarnania not Hellenic.—The Dorians.—Egyptian,Semitic, and other Influences.—Historical Greece.—Macedonians.—Greeceunder Rome and Byzantium.—Inroadsof Barbarians.—The Slavonic Conquest.—RecentElements of Admixture. | [125] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
Russian Populations Sarmatian and Turanian.—SamoeidsTuranian.—Ugrians.—Lapps.—Kwains.—Esthonians.—Liefs.—Permians.—Siranians.—Votiaks.—Tsheremiss,Tshuvatsh, Morduin.—Lithuanians.—Malorussiansand Muscovites.—Their recent Introduction.—TheSkoloti.—Early Displacements.—Ugrian Glosses.—IndianAffinities of the Lithuanic.—Russian Poland.—AnalyticalView of the Present Populations of Russia.—Arkhangel.—Finland.—Esthonia.—Livonia.—Perm.—Simbirsk,Penza.—Lithuania.—Volhynia.—Kharkhov.—Kosaks.—Kherson.—Taurida. | [146] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
Wallachia and Moldavia.—Rumanyos.—Descent fromthe Daci.—Sarmatian Origin.—Servia.—Montenegro | [182] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
Frisian, Saxon, Dutch, and Gothic Germans.—GermanizedKelts.—Germanized Slaves.—Prussia.—Isolation ofits Areas.—East and West Prussia.—Prussian Poland.—Pomerania.—PrussianSilesia.—Prussian Saxony.—Brandenburg.—Uckermark.—South-Western Portion.—Westphalianand Rhenish Prussia.—Mecklenburg.—Saxony.—Linonesof Luneburg.—Hanover and Oldenburg.—Holland.—Hesse-Cassel,Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau.—Baden.—Wurtemburg.—Weimar.—RhenishBavaria.—Danubian Bavaria. | [187] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
Great Britain.—Denmark.—The Islands.—The Vithesleth.—Fyen.—Lauenburg.—Holstein.—Sleswick.—Jutland.—Iceland.—TheFeroe Isles.—Norway.—Sweden.—Lapps.—Kwains.—Gothlanders.—Angermannians.—Theoryof the Scandinavian Population. | [199] |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
Rumelia.—The Turk Stock.—Zones of Conquest.—EarlyIntrusions of Turk Populations Westward.—Thracians.—TheAncient Macedonians.—The Pelasgi ofMacedonia.—Bosnia, Herzegovna and Turkish Croatia.—Bulgaria. | [221] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
Austria.—Bukhovinia, Gallicia, and Lodomiria.—Bohemiaand Moravia.—Austrian Silesia.—Dalmatia.—Croatia.—Carniola.—Carinthia.—Styria.—Saltzburg,theTyrol, the Vorarlberg.—Upper and Lower Austria.—Hungary. | [238] |