adually they
have come to reckon themselves as Croats, owing to their priests who
come from Croatia. They are all big men with luxuriant moustaches.

There is a district in southern Russia, near the Black Sea, which is
called New Serbia. It is the fertile country that was chosen by
150,000 Southern Slavs when they preferred, in 1768, to go into exile
rather than change their religion, like the Bunjevci, the [vS]okci and
the Kra[vs]ovani. They preserve some traces of their origin, but can
no longer be considered Yugoslavs.

In speaking of these converts and their descendants we have alluded to
the Buda-Pest policy of enforcing the Magyar language. This movement
may be studied from the close of the eighteenth century in Croatia,
where Latin had hitherto been the official language. In 1790 the
Croats were again delivered by Leopold II. to the Magyars, who were
bent upon executing their designs.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 20: Cf. _La Question Yougo-Slav_, by Vouk Primorac.
Paris, 1918.]

[Footnote 21: When the Slav first arrived in these
territories the Romans everywhere yielded to them, and while
the more prosperous Romans settled on the coast, the others
retired to the mountains. One of the sea-towns, by the way,
to which the Romans fled was Split, where they could live in
the ruins of Diocletian's enormous, decadent palace; and from
extant lists of the mayors of that town we see that until the
tenth century they all had Latin names, from then till the
twelfth century we find partly Latin and partly Slav names,
and during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries their
names were nearly always Slav. Those Romans--of course not
implying by that word that their forbears had come from Rome
or even from Italy--those refugees who took to the mountains
mingled with the Slavs and were also joined by wandering
shepherds from Wallachia, owing to whom all this variegated
population came to be called Black Vlachs, Mauro-Vlachs and
in English Morlaks. The epithet "black" was attached to the
Vlachs, so Jire['c]ek thinks (cf. _Bulletino di Archeologia
Dalmata_, Split, 1879), on account of the hordes of Black
Tartars who until the beginning of the fourteenth century
infested the plains of Moldavia. Gradually in this hinterland
population the Roman and the Vlach died out, but the latter's
name was retained. It had lost its ethnic mea