21. – The Russian Ethnological Map (1867).

In the year 1867 a "Slavic Exhibition" had been arranged at the instigation of the Russian Slavenophiles in the ancient Russian capital, Moscow, at which the most prominent Slavic workers of that time participated. For this celebrated exhibition, unique of its kind up to this time, an ethnological map of all the Slavic races had been prepared which, at that time, made a great impression and which was approved by all delegates present. The map had such a success in its time, that up to 1877 it appeared in three editions. This map, become historical because of its importance, was drawn by M. F. Mirkowitsch, the Russian geographer and ethnographer, and it received the title "Ethnological Map of the Slavic peoples". – From a printed leaf relating to this map it appears that its author not only carefully consulted the ethnological literature of the Balkan peninsula, but that he also collected information concerning certain districts of the Balkan countries from the best authorities on these territories. We reproduce here in fac-simile, that part of this map which relates to the peninsula according to our method used thus far: dimensions and colours being the same as those of the original.

According to this Russian map nearly all Macedonia, the region of Nisch, even the townlet Kniajewatz (Grgussowatz) included, and the Dobrudja belonged to the dominion of the Bulgarian people.