CAENIOLA, CROATIA, SLAVONIA. 



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There are hardly any manufactures, and the country was one of the last to receive 

 the benefits conferred by railway. But now that Bosnia has been occupied by the 

 Austrians, a great international railroad, connecting Croatia with the Gulf of 

 Saloniki, will no doubt be constructed, and the country will then enter into more 

 intimate relations with Western Europe. 



Towns. 



Laihach (Ljubljana, 22,893 inhabitants), the capital of Carniola, lies at the foot 

 of a castle commanding the Save. It occupies the site of the ancient city of 



Fig. 45. — Semlin and Belgrad. 

 Scale 1 : 165,000. 



\ Prnpoaed Hecti/tcation 

 ^——^^— 5 Miles. 



Emona, which the Huns destroyed in the fifth century, and its position is 

 strategically and commercially of importance, for it lies upon the main road 

 connecting the Danube with the Adriatic. Kramhurg (2,668 inhabitants), the 

 old capital of the province, lies to the north of it. 



Agram (Zagor, 19,857 inhabitants), the capital of Croatia, is inferior in popu- 

 lation to Laibach, but nevertheless aspires to become the capital of a Triune 

 Slav kingdom, embracing Croatia, Servia (with Bosnia), and Dalmatia. A uni- 

 versity, founded in 1874, has made it the intellectual centre of the Southern Slavs. 



