Skopelo (sko-pā'lo)

An island in the Ægean rule for the greater part of the 16th and 17th centuries. Sea, belonging to the nomarchy of Eubœa, Greece, 16 miles from Eubœa, and southeast of The aly. It is identical either with the ancient Halonnesus or with the ancient Pep are thus. Length, 14 miles. Skowhegan (skou-ho'gan). The capital of Somerset County, Maine, situated on the Kennebec 30 miles northeast of August a. Popu lati on (1890), 5,868. Skropha, or Scropha (skrō'fä), Cape. A cape in Greece, at the northwestern entrance to the Gulf of Patras, lat. 38° 16′ N., Skrzynecki (skzhü-net'ské), ke), Jan Boncza, Born in Galicia, Feb. 18, 1786: died at Cracow, Jan. 12, 1860. A Polish general. He served in the N., long. 21°10′ E. Polish contingent in aid of Napoleon; joined the Polish insurrection in 1830; served with distinction at Grochow Feb. 25, 1831, and was appointed commander-in-chief Feb. 26; defeated the Ru ians at Wawre and Dembe in March, and at Iganie on April 8; was defeated at Ostrolenka See Croatia and Slavonia , and Military Frontier . Slavonians (sla-võ'ni-anz). 1. The Slavs.-2. The inhabitants of Slavonia. Slavonisch-Brod (slä-võʼnish-brōd"). A trading town in Slavonia, on the Danube in lat. 45° 8' N., long. 18° Ε. N., long. Slavophiles (slav'ō-filz), The. A Ru ian literary school, the principal representatives of which in the first half of the 19th century were Pogodin, Shevireff, and particularly Aksakoff, Khomiakoff, and Kirievsky. They spoke with scorn of western Europe, and particularly of France, and proclaimed the superiority of Old Ru ia and the old Byzantine civilization, and prophesied a brilliant future for the Slav It was a literary movement of which the doctrines are now fallen into disuse. It should not be confounded with the doctrine of Panslavism, which is political. Slavs (slavz). 1. A race of peoples widely spread in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe. The Slavs are divided into two sections-the race. Slavs southeastern and the western. The former section comprises the Ru ians, Ruthenians, Bulgarians, Serbo-Croatians, Bosniaks, Mon tene grins, and Slovenes; the latter, the Poles, Bohemians, Moravians, Slovaks, Wends, etc. We start with the north of Europe, with that race which at the present day occupies the east of our portion of the globe, the Slavs. It is generally known that these peoples appear for the first time in history in the first century of our era under the name of Veneti (Tacitus, Germ., 46) or Venedi (Pliny, Hist. Nat., IX. 96), and their abode at this period can be made out with tolerable certainty. On the one hand, they cannot yet have touched the north coast of the Black Sea, for this district was occupied by the Persian Sarmatæ or Sauromatæ; on the other hand, they cannot on the west have cro ed either the Car path i ans or the Vistula; for, as far as the river mentioned, Tacitus is acquainted with Teutonic tribes, which partially, as in the case of the Bastarne, extended over it as far as the modern Galicia and farther; and in the ancient Getic or Dacian and Pan non i an proper names, large numbers of which have come down to us, no one as yet has succeeded in discovering any trace of Slavonic. If, then, in the be ginning of our era, the abode of the Slavs must be sought the Car path i ans, it is also probable that the same people of the Black Sea steppes, and east of Vistula was settled in the district mentioned as much as five centuries earlier.