Excerpt from Travels in Hungary, in 1818
In respect of the diversities of its people, no country whatever can be compared with Hungary. They form an heterogeneous assemblage of nations, some of which descend from the primitive inhabitants, others from the different hordes that invaded them, including migrations from neighbouring countries, colonies invited thither, and individual families attracted by the fertility of the soil, or the hopes of commercial gain.
The following are the names under which the several nations may be arranged: Slowacks, Croats, Russniaks, Servians, Illyrians, Carniolians, Magyares, Kumans, Jaszons, Szeklers, Wallachians, Bulgarians, Saxons, Suabians, Bavarians, Franconians, Austrians, Greeks, Armenians, Albanians, Italians, French, Jews, and Zingares.
Though attached for ages to the same country, united by a common interest, governed, in several respects, by the same laws, and living, for the most part, in good intelligence with each other, the diversities here enumerated remain distinct. Each retains, with a sort of pride, the remembrance of its origin, and the alliances they contract are within the limits of its pale. - Thus they preserve their dialect, manners, customs, and very often a peculiar physiognomy.
The Slowacks, called also Bohemian Slavi, designated, in French, by the generic term, Sclavonian, mostly inhabit the mountainous part in the north of Hungary. They nearly compose the entire population of the Comitats of Presburg, Niyitra, Trentsen, Thurotz, Arva, Liptot, Zolyom, Bacs, Gomor, Nograd, and Gran. These Sclavonians are probably the remains of the extensive Moravian kingdom, and, of course, the natural inhabitants of the country.
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