Excerpt from Austro-Hungarian Life in Town and Country Austro-hungarian, though it is the only name we can give to the dominions of the Emperor Francis Joseph, is apt to be somewhat misleading. The Germanic Austrians and the Hungarians, or Magyars, taken together, form less than half the total population. The majority of the Austro Hungarian peoples, therefore, belong to races which are neither Austrian nor Hungarian, properly so called. Most of them are of Slavonic origin; but they, too, are broken up into numer ous races, more or less distinct from one another in language, religion, and habits of life. Czechs, Croatians and Servians, Ruthenes, Poles, Slo vaks, and austrian-bulgarians are all Slavonic races, nearly akin to, and sometimes identical with, others who dwell beyond the frontiers of austria-hungary. Quite separate from all these are races more nearly allied to the Latin group, such as the Roumanians or Wallachians and Italians in part of the Austrian Tyrol and the Coast-lands. Nor are these all. There are, be sides, Over two million Jews, and considerable fragments Of other races - Greeks, Turks, and Gipsies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.