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Title: Central Europe
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Partsch, Josef Franz Maria, 1851-1925 Mackinder, Halford John, Sir, 1861-1947, ed Black, Clementina, tr
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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o make clearances in thegreat woodlands which had till then formed the northernboundary of the Ostmark, the Eastern Mark or Germanborder country along the Danube. After the suppressionof the Hungarian invasions, this Mark had from theeleventh to the thirteenth century been making progressunder strong rulers. Within the Eastern Alps, too, theBavarian tribes had made a successful advance, drivingback the Slavs. These at one time had come up to thesources of the Drave and into the valleys of the Glocknerand Venediger groups, but they now retired into themain basin of Carinthia. Not only the whole district ofthe Drave, but also that of the Mur and Miirz up to theSemmering, is full of Slavonic place-names which testifyto the size of the field here filled by German colonisingactivity. What, it may be asked, were the initiating forces thatled to this vast movement of the Germans towards theeast ? Was this movement due to a deliberate far-seeingpolicy of the German Emperors ? By no means. The
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