. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. FOEEIGN COLONIES IN UKRANIA. 299 and have declared themselves Hussites in order to escape from the tvranny of the Polish Catholic clergy on the one hand, and of the Orthodox Russian on the other. But next to the Gertnans the most numerous recent settlers in New Itussia are the Bulgarians, thousands of whom received the lauds left vacant hy the Nogai Tatars after the Crimean war. But man}^ especially since the creation of a Bulgarian Principality, have been seized with home sickness, and have leturned to the Balkan peninsula, A large portion of the
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. FOEEIGN COLONIES IN UKRANIA. 299 and have declared themselves Hussites in order to escape from the tvranny of the Polish Catholic clergy on the one hand, and of the Orthodox Russian on the other. But next to the Gertnans the most numerous recent settlers in New Itussia are the Bulgarians, thousands of whom received the lauds left vacant hy the Nogai Tatars after the Crimean war. But man}^ especially since the creation of a Bulgarian Principality, have been seized with home sickness, and have leturned to the Balkan peninsula, A large portion of the territory recently ceded by Rumania to Russia is also occupied by Bulgarian agriculturists, who have here succeeded to the Nogai Tatars, now removed farther east. The chief immigration took place Fie;'. 151.—Ethmcal Elements in ?'-clth-West r3 i Lit le Russians. Great Eussians. White Russians. Bulgarians. Eunnnians. Poles- Germans. Tatars. Jews. after the peace of Adrianople in IS'29, and since then they have, by their skilful husbandry and thrifty habits, vastly improved the aspect of the countr3^ Other foreign elements are the Swedes, settled as fishermen near Berislavl since 1782, and of whom 322 still survived in 1863 ; the Serbs, formerly numerous along the north frontier of the Zaporog territory, but now mostly assimilated to the Great Russians ; the Greeks and Albanians, now chiefl}'' settled as traders in the towns ; the Jews, who, as enforced agriculturists, have entirely failed and fallen into the deepest misery. But other Jewish communities are both flourishing and numerous. In all Russia there cannot be less than 3,000,000, centred mainly in the western. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augu
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