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us'TRIA, an empire S.E. of Germany; ar. 260,000 sq. m., pop. 331⁄2 mill. Tl!R1KEY, S. of Austria; ar. 183,000 sq. m., pop. 9 mill.; GREECE, S. of Turkey; ar. (now) 18,600 sq. m., pop. 811,000. The Circle of Austria was called Noricum.1 At'STRIA inclu es Panno­ nia, now Hungary; part of Dacia, now Transylvania; lll ricum, now Dalmatia; Bosnia (part of), Croatia, and Sclavonia. 1URKEY indudes part of Dacia, now Moldavia and Wallachia; sia, now Servia and Bulgaria; racia, now part of Roumelia; Bosnia, part of lllyricwn, together with the greater part of GR CIA,­ which anciently comprised the Pelop nne.m., now the Morea; Gr cia Propria, or Greece ; 1'hessatia; Epirus, now Albania; and Jfacedonia.
1. THE smallest, but by r the most important, of the great divisions of the earth, is Europe : it excels all the others in science, literature, arts, and manu­ ctures. Its length, om the North Cape, in Lap­ land, ta Cape Matapan, in Greece, is 2,400 miles; and its breadth, om Cape La Hogue, in France, to the River Don in Russia, 2,200 miles. It is bounded north, by the Northern Ocean; west, by the Atlantic Ocean; sou,th, by the :Mediterranean Sea; east, by the Archipelago, the Sea of : armora, the Black' Sea, the Sea of Azof, and Asia. The population is estimated at 240 millions. Europe is divided into the llowing countries : Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Prus­ sia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
2. Europe is the north-western part of the old con­ tinent, of which it rms about one-seventh. It con­ tains nearly ur millions of square miles, being about one- urth of the extent of Asia, and some­ thing more than one-third of that of A ica; and it presents, in proportion to its sur ce, a much greater extent of coast than any other of the great divisions of the earth. This is occasioned by its numerous peninsulas, rmed by inland seas and gul , which penetrate r into the continent, and greatly cilitate