TURKEY 409,414 sq

m.; 3.341, 9*3- in Europe, partly in Asia, and partly in Africa African dependencies (Egypt, Tripoli, and Barca); are now loosely connected to the empire, as are also various portions of European T.; 1,147,578 sq. m.; cap. Constantinople; 27,694,600; EUROPEAN TUR- KEY is now much le extensive than formerly from the end of the 15th cent, till 1830 it included Greece; till 1878 it included Roumania on the north and Servia on the south of the Danube; Bulgaria and E. Roumelia are now self-governing and practically independent Bosnia and Herzegovina are occupied and administered; by Austria, which also holds military control of Novi-Bazar; Crete and Thasos are T. isls.; TURKEY present includes area, 65,909 Asia Minor, sq. m.; Armenia 4,786,545 and; ASIATIC Kurdistan, Me so pot am i a, Syria, and Arabia the Asiatic isls. of T. are Cyprus (practically British),; Khio, Mitylene, Samothraki, Samos, Cos, and Rhodes