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Austria containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire
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AUSTRIA.
CHAPTER. I.
PROVINCES OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE—THEIR EXTENT AND POPULATION.
The empire of Austria, one of the most extensive and powerful of the states of Europe, is composed of provinces situated in Germany, Poland and Italy, and embraces the whole of Hungary.
The German dominions of this monarchy consist of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Bohemia, Moravia, part of Silesia, and the Tyrol and Salzburg.
In Poland it possesses the kingdom of Galicia.
The Hungarian states are: Hungary proper, Slavonia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Transylvania and the Bukowina.
In Italy, Venice and the Milanese form the Lombard-Venetian kingdom, one of the brightest jewels in the crown of Austria.
The extent and population of these provinces is shown in the subjoined table.
EXTENT AND POPULATION OF THE PROVINCES OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE.
| German Square miles. | Inhabitants. | |
| The kingdom of Bohemia | 956.80 | 3,203,222 |
| The Margravate of Moravia The duchy of Silesia |
417.64 86.85 |
1,680,935 |
| Austria below the Enns | 363.65 | 1,048,324 |
| Austria above the Enns, including the circles of the Inn and Hausruck and Salzburg | 344.32 | 756,897 |
| The duchy of Styria | 398.98 | 799,056 |
| The duchy of Carinthia | 190.90 | 278,500 |
| Illyria and part of Croatia | 250.95 | 467,836 |
| The Littorale, or Coast District | 176.18 | 422,861 |
| Tyrol and Voralberg | 520.44 | 717,542 |
| The Lombard-Venetian kingdom | 867.50 | 4,111,535 |
| The government of Dalmatia | 274.94 | 295,089 |
| The kingdom of Galicia | 1526.12 | 3,755,454 |
| Civil Hungary, Croatia and Slavonia | 4097.06 | 8,200,000 |
| Civil Transylvania Transylvanian Military Frontiers |
1118.70 | 1,510,000 138,284 |
| Banat Frontiers | 186.00 | 171,657 |
| Slavonian Frontiers | 139.40 | 230,079 |
| Warasdin Military government | 67.40 | 107,217 |
| Carlstadt Military government | 166.40 | 188,906 |
| Banal Regiments | 54.20 | 95,442 |
| —————- | —————— | |
| 12,204.48 | 28,178,836 |
CHAPTER II.
OF THE DIFFERENT NATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN DOMINIONS—THE JEWS—THE GERMANS—THE SLAVONIANS, INCLUDING THE BOHEMIANS—THE SLOWACKS—THE WENDES AND THE RASCIANS OR ILLYRIANS—THE MAGYARES OR HUNGARIANS—THE WALACHIANS—THE ZIGANIS OR GIPSIES—THE ARMENIANS—THE GREEKS, &c.
The population of the Austrian dominions is composed of different races, each having particular manners and even a peculiar language. All these nations are far from being actuated by the same spirit, or feeling the same attachment for the state to which they belong. This is one of the great causes of the political weakness of Austria; a weakness which has been sensibly manifested in all the wars of invasion. United within a longer or a shorter period under the authority of one and the same prince, they do not form one compact whole. Thus the different inhabitants of the Austrian states have neither the same interests nor the same feelings. The Hungarians, the Bohemians and the Tyrolese, people extremely jealous of their independence, do not consider themselves as being of the same nation as the Austrians, whom most of