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Identifier: austriahungary00mitt (find matches)
Title: Austria-Hungary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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Publisher: London A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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growth of Austrian shipping since the beginning ofthe century is the more remarkable, especially as it proceedsless from trade with the Levant and Asiatic harboursthan from trade with South America, for which Genoa ismore favourably situated, and with North America, towhich Northern and Western Europe enjoy shorter accessby sea. Trieste is connected with Villach and Salzburgby rail, and this is one of the routes on which theAustrian government has agreed to place theCanadian observation cars. The steamers of theAustrian-Lloyd line sail from here, and it is thepoint of departure for India, China, and Japan.Quite recently the Canadian-Pacific Railway Com-pany have put on a service of steamers to link upAustria with Canada, a fact of which numbers ofemigrants are taking advantage. A voyage of fourand a half hours lies between Trieste and Pola, theAustrian naval base. The principal governmentdockyard is at Pola, but at Trieste there are twobuilding slips capable of receiving dreadnoughts.
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■HOT *kmk RAGUSA: THE PLOCE ROAD FROM SAN GIACOMO. MORNING CHAPTER XVI TRANSYLVANIA AND GALICIA On the west of Hungary lies that mountainousland, rich in minerals, namely Transylvania, whichso long stood alone and even now is possessed of aspirit of independence, which is likely to give trouble,though for the time in full legislative and politicalunion with Hungary. The Magyar name for thecountry is Erdely, meaning forest-land, and is akinto the Latin one with its obvious signification beyond the woods. The country contains about21,000 square miles, and on account of its ruggedheights resembles a great natural fortress. Thechief peoples, the Wallachians, Saxons, and Rou-manians, different as they are among themselves,are united in common discontent against theattempts of Hungary to impose her own languageand ideas on the land they share. They cannotforget that for nearly two centuries, from 1538,they were an independent kingdom under a kingof their own choosing, and it was not till

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