• GENERAL VIEW 



OP THE 



AUSTRIAN DOMINIONS, 



THE extensive and powerful monarchy of Austria is composed of 

 the following provinces and countries, which form the hereditary- 

 dominions of the present emperor of Germany, who has lately assum- 

 ed the hereditary title of emperor of Austria. 



Provinces and Countries. 



Sq. Miles. 



Population. 



Archduchy of Austria Proper 



10,080 



1,820,000 



f Stiria 



6592 



800,000 



Duchies of < Carinthia 



3100 



300,000 



{_ Carniola 



3424 



400,000 



Territory ol Triest 



120 



40,000 



County of Tyrol 



6960 



610,000 



Principality of Swabia 



1600 



200,000 



Kingdom of Bohemia 



14,400 



2,810,000 



Marquisate of Moravia 



6400 



1,260,000 



Austrian Silesia 



1296 



250,000 



Kingdom of Gallicia and Lodomeria 



37,000 - 



3,900,000 



Kingdom of Hungary 



59,500 



6,300,000 



Transylvania 



16,400 



1,500,00.0 



The Buckowine 



2900 



130,000 



Illyria, or, Sclavonia and Croatia 



12,080 



900,000 



Hungarian and Venetian Dalmatia 



4640 



300,000 



The Venetian Territory 



8000 



2,000,000 



Total 195,212 23,520,000 

 The population of Austria has since been stated at 26,970,030. 



The Austrian dominions are situated between 45 and 52 degrees 

 of north latitude, and between 12 and 27 degrees of east longitude. 

 Their length, from the frontiers of Switzerland to the utmost limits 

 ol Transylvania, may be estimated at about 760 miles ; and their 

 breadth, from the river Bug, which forms a boundary between Austria 

 and Prussian Poland, to the Save, which divides Austria from Tur- 

 key, at about 520. The number of inhabitants to the square mile is, 

 as appears from the preceding tabic of the extent and population of 

 the countries of which they are composed, nearly 110. 



The name of Austria has been formed by the Italian and French 

 pronunciation of the German words Osier Reich, the eastern kingdom, 

 which name this territory received on account of its situation with 

 vespect to the western empire established by Charlemagne. 



The archduchy of Austria Proper exceeds all the other provinces 

 of Germany in the fertility of its soil (productive especially in corn, 



