SLAVS

one of the chief divisions of Aryan race of mankind, numbering the 125,000,000. They have been at least into two leading families, the divided and the western. The eastern eastern again, may be subdivided into— family, Ru ians. These include—(a) Great (1) Ru ians, numbering about 60,000,000, in Ru ia; but they are found also mostly Siberia and in Central Asia; (b) Little in Ru ian s, amount ing to nearly or Malo 23,000,000; they are found in southern governments of Ru ia, and include the Ruthenians or Rel Ru ians in Galicia the Boiki and Guzules in Bukovina; and (c) White Ru ians, who number and provinces of about 6,000,000 in western (2) The Bulgarians, the Ru ia. of whom inhabit Bulgaria; majority amount to some 5,000,000. (3) they Serbo-Croats, among whom are in The Serbs or Serbians, the Monte - cluded the of the population of 8. negrins, part and a few in Ru ia. They Hungary, to nearly 8,000,000. (4) The amount in Carinthia, Carniola, and part Slovenes, Styria, amounting to more than of 1,000,000. western family includes— (i) The divided between Ru ia, Austri a, Poles, amounting to over 14,0090,- Pru ia, and these must be grouped the 000. With or Ka ubes, who are found Kashubes Danzig, and number le than near 200,000. avians, and nearly 2,500,000. (3) who number or Sorbs, divide d into Lusatian Wends the former (95,000) Upper and Lower, latter (65,000) in Pru ia. in Saxony, the first appe ar in is When the Slavs them in parts of Europe tory we find present time almost all where at the have disappeare d. The traces of them accepted the or y 1s that most generally was in original home of the Slavs the Volhynia and White Ru i a.