SCHLESWIG

(54° 30’ N., 9° 34’ E.), town, seaport, on Schlei inlet; capital of Schleswig; has cathedral and ducal castle; tanneries, flour-mills. Pop. 20,000. SCHLESWIG - HOLSTEIN, former prov., Pru ia (64° 52’ N., 9° 9’ E.), bordering on North and Baltic Seas; surface generally plains and moors; drained by Eider and Elbe; cro ed by Kaiser Wilbelm Canal; cap. Schleswig; agriculture important; livestock raised; shipbuilding and fishing carried on. Schleswig, long an object of contention between the Danes and the Germans, became a po e ion of Denmark in 1ith cent., and later an independent state under Dan. suzerainty. About the end of 14th cent. it was united to Holstein. In 1848-50 provinces unsucce fully rebelled against Denmark; but in 1864 they were wrested from the latter country by Austria and Pru ia. Two years later (1866), Pru ia, after her victory over Austria, incorporated both duchies in her dominions. Under the Treaty of Versailles concluding the World War, N. Schleswig, divided into two zones, was granted a plebiscite. In the N. zone the voting was for Denmark, in S. zone for Germany. Area, 7,838 sq. m.; pop. 1,621,000. For map, See DENMARK. 1911), an American rear-admiral, rescued Greely in 1884, being in command of the third relief expedition. At the battle of Santiago against Spain (1898) he acted as deputy commander of the US navy, his flagship being the Brook90), Ger. archeologist, distinguished as the excavator of the sites of Troy and at Troy are now in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin, those from Mycenze in the Polytechnic at Athens. The results ‘of his work are described in Schliemann’s Excavations, edited by Madame Schliemann. TOPH (1776-1861), Gee. historian: 3. Jever; wrote History of Iconoclastic Emperors of the East; World History of the German People; History of XVIII. Cent., ete.