Austria

(aus'tre-ah,) (EMPIRE OF,) [Ger. Oesterreich,] a state of Central Europe, cap. Vienna (Wien), situated chiefly bet. Lat. 45° and 51° 2' N. (but extending inDalmatia to Lat. 42° 9′ N.), and Lon. 8° 35' and 26° 35'E., b. N. by Ru ia, Pru ia, Saxony, and Bavaria, S. by Italy, the Adriatic, and the Ottoman Empire; W.by Switzerland and Italy; and E. by the Ru ian Empire. Area, 227,234 sq. m. According to the census taken in 1869, the pop. of the Austrian empire was as follows: PROVINCES. POPULATION. I. Cis-Leithan p. (Austria Proper): 1. Lower Austria........ 1,990,708 2. Upper Austria...... 736,519 3. Salzburg... 153,159 4. Styria..... 1,137,748 5. Carinthia 337,694 6. Carniola... 466,334 7. Gærtz, Gradisca, Istria, and Trieste.... 601,981 8. Tyrol and Vorarlberg...... 885,406 9. Bohemia....... 5,140,156 10. Moravia 2,030,783 11. Silesia.... 513,352 12. Galicia..... 5,444,016 13. Bukovina. 513,404 14. Dalmatia. 468,781 Total Austria Proper............ 20,242,835 II. Trans-Leithan p. (Hungary): 15. Hungary. 11,180,048 16. Croatia and Slavonia.............. 1,023,858 17. Transylvania...... 2,122,458 Total Hungary. 14,234,205 III. The military frontier (which is administered by the ministry of war of the empire).. 1,197,187 Pop. (1876)) 37,350,000. Total Austrian Empire........ 35,943,592 Three great mountain systems cover the empire with their ramifications; viz., the Alps in the S.W., the Bo hem ian and Moravian mountains in the N.W., and the [s. 62]