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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a, theboundary between which, S. of the Dan-ube, is partly formed by the lower Enns;chief towns, Vienna in Lower, Linz, inUpper, Austria. The surface for themost part is mountainous or hilly, butsinking down to plains on both sides ofthe Danube in the E., the Marchfeld onthe N. of that river, between Vienna andthe March, being remarkably level. The only special agricultural productthat need be mentioned is wine, somechoice kinds being produced on the sunnyslopes of the Wienerwald. The most im-portant mineral product is the salt of theSalzkammergut, the center of which isIschl. As regards other minerals, thechief mining districts are Wels in Upper,St. Polten in Lower, Austria, and theprincipal products, lignite in Upper, andcoal, iron ore, lignite, and graphite inLower, Austria. The principal manufac-turing centers in Lower Austria priorto the war were Vienna (miscellaneous),Wiener-Neustadt (cottons, etc.), and, inthe W., Waidhofen (iron); in UpperAustria, Steyr (iron), and Linz (wool-
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AT7STBIA-HUNGABY 353 AXJSTBIA-HUNGARY ens,etc.)- Originally a margravate, Aus-tria was erected into a duchy in 1156,and the title of archduke (borne solelyby members of the Hapsburg family)was first formally conferred by imperialletters patent in 1453, though it had pre-viously been assumed by some of theDukes of Austria. See also Austria-Hungary. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, a former em-pire of Europe, composed of a Cisleithanportion officially known as Austria, anda Transleithan portion known as Hun-gary, each having its own constitution,a limited monarchy and each formerlypossessing a separate Parliament, butuniting under a common sovereign in theestablishment of a common army, navy,financial, diplomatic, postal, and tele-graphic services. Supreme Legislature.—Legislation inregard to common affairs was accom-plished by a supreme body known asthe Delegations. Of these there weretwo, each composed of 60 members, rep-resenting the legislative bodies of Aus-tria and Hungary, the upper houses re-

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