Dalmatia

a province of Austria with the title of kingdom, the most S. portion of the Austrian dominions. It consists of a long narrow triangular tract of mountainous country and a number of large islands along the N. E. coasts of the Adriatic Sea, and bounded N. by Croatia and N. KE. by Bosnia and Herzegovina. In breadth it is very limited, not exceeding 40 miles in any part; its whole area is 4,940 English square miles. The population is divided between the Italians of the coast towns and the ——* of the interior, Sloven i an lavs. The majority are Roman Catholics. Pop. (1900) 593,783.