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HUNGARY. 



History. 



v ' Y 

 A. D. 1656. 



The crown 

 declared he- 

 reditary in 

 the house 

 of Austria, 



A. D.I 7 to. 



were silenced by the stroke of the executioner. In 

 Vain did Tekely raise all the provinces to revenge these 

 outrages ; and, supported by the Turks, to whom the 

 Hungarians in their despair had surrendered them- 

 selves, laid siege to Vienna. All Germany immedi- 

 ately armed against the common enemy the Turks, who 

 were driven back into their own territories. Rakotzy, 

 who after Tekely endeavoured to support these efforts 

 of independence against tyranny, was equally unfortu- 

 nate. The Archduke Joseph, son of Leopold I. was 

 acknowledged king in 1687, and the crown was decla- 

 red hereditary in the male descendants of the house of 



Austria. This line, however, failed at the death of History. 

 Charles VI. ; but the Hungarians, exhausted by conti- ^ "~Y~^^ 

 nual wars, and fatigued by so many fruitless revolu- ?r l 

 tions, had lost that ardent love of liberty for which they submit"* 

 were so conspicuous, and which led them to brave so the acres- 

 many dangers. They therefore submitted to theacces- sion of Ma. 

 sion of Maria Theresa, the daughter of Charles, in 1 74 1. There- 

 She had gained and deserved their love and affection. sa m 17 "' 

 Her husband, the emperor Francis, was associated with 

 her in the government, and their descendants still hold 

 the Hungarian sceptre. The preceding sketch of Hun- 

 garian history is all that our limits will allow. 



STATISTICS OF HUNGARY. 



Statistics. 



HUNGARY, properly so called, a kingdom in Eu- 

 rope, and under the dominion of Austria, lies in 

 Situuon. Latitude 44 33' 18" 1-9 26' 20" North; and in 

 Longitude 13 45' 2" 22 46' East of Paris. Na- 

 ture herself points out the boundaries of this kingdom. 

 . . The Carpathian or Krapak mountains separate it on 

 rlea> the north and east from Moravia, Silesia, Galicia, Buc- 

 kovina, and Transylvania ; on the south, the Danube 

 and the Drave divide it from Servia, Sclavonia, and 

 Croatia; and on the west the Morau or Morava, with a 

 range of mountains lying between the Drave and the 

 Danube, form its boundary with the Archduchy of 

 Austria. According to Captain Lipsky, it contains 

 4051 German square mile;* its greatest length from 

 west to east being 136, and its greatest breadth from 

 north to south 77 German miles. 



The kingdom of Hungary is divided by modern geo- 

 graphers into four circles, comprehending forty-six 

 counties, besides the districts of Jazyg, Great Cumania, 

 Little Cumania the sixteen cities of the Zips ; the six 

 cities of Heidukes, which enjoy peculiar privileges ; 

 and the two frontier regiments of the Bannat, and the 

 battalion of Tschaikistes. The whole, according to the 

 following Table, contained, in 1805, 42 royal free cities, 

 8 episcopal cities, 590 towns, 9214 villages, 2338 prae- 

 dien,+ and 22 cities of Zips and Heidukes. 



Eitent, 



Biyifien. 



Table of the 

 counties and 

 cities. 



Statistic*. 



* In this Article, where English miles are not marked, German miles must be understood. 



f- By the laws of Hungary, the proprietors of the coil are obliged to let out to farm one half of their lands to their rassals : what 

 llicy cultivate on their own account is called Pradim, 



