Tuscany

(tüs'kan-e.) [ It. To scan a,] a country and former sovereign grand-duchy of Central Italy, lying bet. N. Lat. 42° 20′-44° 10', E. Lon. 10° 15′-12° 20', and b. N. by Lucca and Modena, E.by the Marches and Umbria, S. by the Romagna, and W. by the Mediterranean. It is divided into the 7 pro vs. of Arezzo, Pisa, Florence, Gro eto, Leghorn, Lucca, and Siena. Area, 8,374 sq. m. On the N.E. it is intersected by the A pennines, and it has the Arno for its pp. river. C. Florence.- T., the anc. Etruria and Tyrrhenia, became in the Middle Ages aduchy and fief of Lombardy, and afterwards pa ed under the rule of the Medici (q.v.). Later, it was made into an independent State governed by a grand-duke of the cadet branch of the imperial house of Haps burg Lor raine. Pop. 2,135,323. [s. 914]