GERMANY, country Cent

Europe, composed of 4 kingdoms, 6 grand, duchies. 5 duchies, 7 principalities. 3 free towns, and the Reichsland (Elsa -Loth- Girard, ringen), sover. states federated under an emperor 740 m. E. to W.,and 580 m. N. to S.; 627 p.c. of; GlRDLENESS, people Protestant, 35-8 p.c. Ro. Catholic; Ro. Catho- GlRJEH, lics predominate in Els.-Loth., Bavaria, and Baden; GlRGENTI, Berlin, cap. of empire, has over i}£ millions of inhabitants; 3 cities (Munich. Breslau, and Hamburg) GIRONDE, have over 200,000: 4 (Leipsic, Cologne, Dresden, and Madgeburg) have over 200,000 and 18 have GlRVAN, over 100,000; education is very highly: developed: GISBORNE, the 21 Germ. uni^ers it;es are the intellectual workshops of the world; the main rivers of G. are Rhine, Weser, Elbe, Oder, Vistula, and Danube—each an important waterway for trade N. Germany is a GlURGEVO, great sandy plain from Ru ia to; Holland in S. and W. G. there are detached groups of mts.;; politically GlVET, G. is one of the first powers of the world; its colonial GIVORS, po e ions have been only recently acquired, and their situation can hardly be expected to attract Gladbach, large numbers of G. settlers; in population Germany Gladstone, comes next to Ru ia among Europ. States; 49,416,476.