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Title: Hungary and the Hungarians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bovill, W. B. F Pascoe, William, ill
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Publisher: New York, McClure
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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is tough. Things for a longtime have not gone well with him. There is little tokeep the Croatian in his native land. In 1906 some43,311 of them found their way to other lands.Depopulation similar to that in Ireland is goingon here, and America is the El Dorado they seek.The sterile Karst, and the rugged Krbava country,have driven thousands away. But one fears that itis not always soil difficulty which accounts for thebig emigration. Poverty alone seldom causes peopleto migrate. A people will starve in peace at home,but it will not starve in trouble at home. Politicaldisturbance is a disintegrating factor. The Slavsof South-Eastern Europe have always been poor.These poor Croatians have been the frontiersmenof Europe. One of them said to me, We gavecivilisation a chance in the West. All along theTurkish-Austrian frontier the Magyar Governmentsettled and organised people. There was a militarismabout the scheme. Uniforms and weapons wereprovided, and a man had to serve from his eighteenth
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V *-. 1 CROATIA AND THE CROATIANS 229 to his sixtieth year. One village would perhaps forma company, three or four villages a battalion, and anumber or group of villages would make up thecomplement of a regiment. Men worked with theirguns beside them then. The advent of Hungariansupremacy changed much of this. I am afraid thatthese old methods did more to promote militarismthan agriculture. One of the chief features of Croatian life is the zadruga,or co-operative community. One of these communalfamilies will number as many as 200 people. It wascustomary to place the eldest man at the head of thecommunity, whilst his wife—for they usually hadone—superintended the labours of the women-folk.Almost the same line is taken to-day. There issomething so very primitive about these institutions.A common purpose, a common toil, and a commonsharing is the practice of all such communal gatherings.At one time there was a self-sufficiency about thecommunity, for they produced all they needed.Wom

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