Category: History - European

The Ethnology of Europe

Preliminary Observations.--The Physical Peculiarities of Europe.--General Sketch of its Ethnology.--Statement of Problems.--The Skipetar, or Albanians.--Their Language, Descent.--The Four Tribes.--How far a Pure Stock.--Elements of Intermixture......1

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

Preliminary Observations.--The Physical Peculiarities of Europe.--General Sketch of its Ethnology.--Statement of Problems.--The Skipetar, or Albanians.--Their Language, Descent....

2. CHAPTER II.

Spain and Portugal.--The Euskaldunac, or Basques.--The Iberian Stock.--The Turdetanian Civilization.--Phœnician, Roman, Vandal, Gothic Elements.--Keltiberians.--The Original Kel...

3. CHAPTER III.

France.--Iberian Blood in Gaul as well as the Spanish Peninsula.--Iberians of Gascony, &c.--Ligurians.--How far Keltic.--Bodencus.--Intermixture.--Roman, German, Arab.--Alsatia....

4. CHAPTER IV.

Italy.--Ligurians.--Etruscans.--Venetians and Liburnians.--Umbrians.--Ausonians.--Latins.--Earliest Populations of North-Eastern Italy.--South Italians.--Italian Origin of the G...

5. CHAPTER V.

Importance of Clearness of Idea respecting the Import of the Word “Race.”--The Pelasgi.--Area of Homeric Greece.--Acarnania not Hellenic.--The Dorians.--Egyptian, Semitic, and o...

6. CHAPTER VI.

Russian Populations Sarmatian and Turanian.--Samoeids Turanian.--Ugrians.--Lapps.--Kwains.--Esthonians.--Liefs.--Permians. --Siranians.--Votiaks.--Tsheremiss, Tshuvatsh, Morduin...

7. CHAPTER VII.

8. CHAPTER VIII.

Frisian, Saxon, Dutch, and Gothic Germans.--Germanized Kelts.--Germanized Slaves.--Prussia.--Isolation of its Areas.--East and West Prussia.--Prussian Poland.--Pomerania.--Pruss...

9. CHAPTER IX.

10. CHAPTER X.

11. CHAPTER XI.

12. CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.--THE PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES OF EUROPE.--GENERAL SKETCH OF ITS ETHNOLOGY.--STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS.--THE SKIPETAR, OR ALBANIANS.--THEIR LANGUAGE, DESCENT....

13. CHAPTER II.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.--THE EUSKALDUNAC, OR BASQUES.--THE IBERIAN STOCK.--THE TURDETANIAN CIVILIZATION.--PHŒNICIAN--ROMAN--VANDAL--GOTHIC ELEMENTS.--KELTIBERIANS.--THE ORIGINAL KEL...

14. CHAPTER III.

FRANCE.--IBERIAN BLOOD IN GAUL AS WELL AS THE SPANISH PENINSULA.--IBERIANS OF GASCONY, ETC.--LIGURIANS.--HOW FAR KELTIC.--BODENCUS.--INTERMIXTURE.--ROMAN, GERMAN, ARAB.--ALSATIA...

15. CHAPTER IV.

ITALY.--LIGURIANS.--ETRUSCANS.--VENETIANS AND LIBURNIANS.--UMBRIANS.--AUSONIANS.--LATINS.--EARLIEST POPULATIONS OF NORTH-EASTERN ITALY.--SOUTH ITALIANS.--ITALIAN ORIGIN OF THE G...

16. CHAPTER V.

IMPORTANCE OF CLEARNESS OF IDEA RESPECTING THE IMPORT OF THE WORD “RACE.”--THE PELASGI.--AREA OF HOMERIC GREECE.--ACARNANIA NOT HELLENIC.--THE DORIANS.--EGYPTIAN, SEMITIC, AND O...

17. CHAPTER VI.

RUSSIAN POPULATIONS, SARMATIAN AND TURANIAN.--SAMOEIDS TURANIAN.--UGRIANS.--LAPPS.--KWAINS.--ESTHONIANS.--LIEFS. --PERMIANS.--SIRANIANS.--VOTIAKS.--TSHEREMISS, TSHUVATSH, MORDUI...

18. CHAPTER VII.

_Wallachia and Moldavia._--The Wallachians and Moldavians are in the same relations to the Romans and ancient Daci as the French are to the Romans and Kelts, or the Spaniards to...

19. CHAPTER VIII.

FRISIAN, SAXON, DUTCH, AND GOTHIC GERMANS.--GERMANIZED KELTS.--GERMANIZED SLAVES.--PRUSSIA.--ISOLATION OF ITS AREAS.--EAST AND WEST PRUSSIA.--PRUSSIAN POLAND.--POMERANIA.--PRUSS...

20. CHAPTER IX.

As the ethnology of the British Islands is made the subject of a separate volume,[18] the present notice will be confined to the simple statement of the Irish, the Scotch Gaels,...

21. CHAPTER X.

The European population of the Ottoman Empire, laying aside Jews, Armenians, and other similarly non-indigenous populations, is fivefold--Turk, Greek, Slavonic, Rumanyo, and Alb...

22. CHAPTER XI.

_Gallicia and Lodomiria._--At present these are Russniak areas encroached upon by Poles and Germans: indeed, it was from Gallicia, Lodomiria, and Bukhovinia, that the Malorussia...