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Appendix I

The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow · Edward Alfred Steiner — chapter 6 of 9 · ~289 words · public domain

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CLASSIFICATION OF THE NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS

The new Immigrant groups which are more difficult to classify according to race, nationality and religion:

The Slavs

I. Western Slavs

Nationality Name or political division Religion

Bohemian The Kingdom of Bohemia Roman Catholic or Czech a province of Austria Protestant

Moravians Moravia Roman Catholic a province of Austria Protestant

Poles Poland Roman Catholic divided by the European powers into The Russian province of Poland The German province of Posen The Austrian province of Galicia

Slovaks A number of districts in Roman Catholic Hungary chiefly in and Protestant near the Carpathians

Wends Settlements in Germany, Roman Catholic Prussia and Saxony Protestant

2. Eastern Slavs

Russians Russia Greek Orthodox {Little Russians Southern Russia Greek Orthodox {Ruthenians Galicia and {Russniaks Hungary Greek Catholic

3. Southern Slavs

Servians The Kingdom of Servia Greek Orthodox some districts in Southern Hungary Greek Orthodox

Croatians Croatia Roman Catholic a province of Hungary and Greek Orthodox

Montenegrins Montenegro Greek Orthodox an independent principality

Bosnians Bosnia and Herzegovina Greek Orthodox and Provinces of Austria Roman Catholic Herzogovinians Mohammedan

Dalmatians Dalmatia Greek Orthodox a province of Austria Roman Catholic

Slovenes Carinthia Roman Catholic or Griners Carnolia Protestant Provinces of Austria

Bulgarians Czardom of Bulgaria Greek Orthodox Districts in Southern Hungary

Eastern European Groups Non-Slavic

Magyars Kingdom of Hungary Roman Catholic and Protestant

Finns Finland Protestant a semi-independent province of Russia

Roumanian Kingdom of Roumania Greek Orthodox Roman Catholic

Lithuanians District in Russia Roman Catholic and Protestant

Greeks Kingdom of Greece Greek Orthodox

Albanians Albania Greek Orthodox a province of Roman Catholic Turkey and Mohammedan

Groups from the Ottoman Empire

Armenians Asia Minor Armenian Catholic Church Gregorian Church Protestant

Syrians Syria {Jacobite a province of Syrian church {Maronite Turkey {Ancient Syrian (Roman Catholic)

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