LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY. 



I. TH CHIEF STATES OF EUBOPE THEIR CAPITALS, AREA, POPULATION, ire. 



The remaining states of Europe which as yet preserve a sem- 

 blance of independence, though the rulers of all of them may 

 be considered as being virtually subordinate to the will of 

 Prussia, are included within the limits of the great central 

 territorial division of Europe called Germany. The new German 

 Empire was constituted by the treaties made at Versailles in 

 1871, after the close of the Franco-German War, nnder the 

 Presidentship of the King of Prussia, who bears the title of 

 Emperor of Germany. 



We give herewith a list of the states that make up the Ger- 

 man Empire, and in every case the names of the states given in 



II. THE CHIEF STATES OP EUROPE THEIR 



Tables I. and II. are printed in italics to distinguish them from 

 the small states that are not included in these tables. 



THE GERMAN EMPIRE. The Kingdoms of Prustia, Saxony, 

 Bavaria, and Wurtemberg ; the grand-duchies of Oldenburg, 

 Mecklenbury-Schwerin, Baden, Hesse- Darmstadt, Mecklenburg' 

 Strelitz, and Saxe- Weimar ; the duchies of Anhalt, Brunswick, 

 Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Meiningen, and Saxe-Cobnrg-Gotha ; the 

 principalities of Schwartzbnrg-Sondershausen, Schwartzburg- 

 Rudolstadt, Woldeck, Reuss-Schleiz, Reuss-Greiz, Sckaumbnrg- 

 Lippe, and Lippe-Detmold ; the free cities of Lubeck, Bremen, 

 and Hamburg, and the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 



RULERS, REVENUE, NATIONAL DEBT, ETC. 



