Category: History - European
OF THE DIFFERENT NATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN DOMINIONS--THE JEWS--THE GERMANS--THE SLAVONIANS, INCLUDING THE BOHEMIANS--THE SLOWACKS--THE WENDES AND THE RASCIANS OR ILLYRIANS--THE MAGYARES OR HUNGARIANS--THE WALACHIANS--THE ZIGANIS OR GIPSIES--THE ARMENIANS--THE GREEKS, &c.
OF THE DIFFERENT NATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN DOMINIONS--THE JEWS--THE GERMANS--THE SLAVONIANS, INCLUDING THE BOHEMIANS--THE SLOWACKS--THE WENDES AND THE RASCIANS OR ILLYRIANS--THE M...
2. CHAPTER III.All the sects of the Christian religion are to be found in Austria, and the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks, are more or less numerous in the different provinces. Such a diversity o...
3. CHAPTER IV.The south of Germany would be the most fortunate country in Europe, if the government to which it is subject had not shown in many circumstances a weakness that but ill accords...
4. CHAPTER V.The inhabitants of Lower Austria, in which the capital of the empire is situated, are, with the Hungarians, the most fortunate of the subjects of the imperial sceptre. Cultivati...
5. CHAPTER VI.In Styria the costume of both sexes is singular. The head-dress of the women of its capital, Grätz, and the neighbouring villages, such as maid-servants and daughters of inferio...
6. CHAPTER VII.The name of Bohemia is derived from that of the Boji, a Celtic nation which inhabited this country at the period to which the earliest historical records of it relate. Notwithst...
7. CHAPTER VIII.The costume of the inhabitants of Moravia resembles more or less that of the people of the contiguous countries. In the centre of the province the men generally wear jacket, wai...
8. CHAPTER IX.MIGRATIONS OF THE TYROLESE--THEIR FRANKNESS--THEIR ATTACHMENT TO THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA--ANECDOTE OF THE ARCHDUCHESS ELIZABETH--LITERARY TURN OF THE TYROLESE--THEIR EXTRAORDINARY...
9. CHAPTER X.The kingdom of Hungary, the superficial area of which exceeds four thousand German square miles, and which contains nearly nine millions of inhabitants, is a highly interesting...
10. CHAPTER XI.The grand principality of Transylvania, about one-sixth of the extent of Hungary, contains a population of about a million and a half. It presents as great a diversity of nation...
11. CHAPTER XII.Bukowina, formerly part of Moldavia, was subdued in 1769 by the Russians, but restored to the Ottoman Porte at the peace concluded in 1774. In the same year Austria took militar...
12. CHAPTER XIII.The border of the Austrian empire from Povile on the coast of the Adriatic Sea to the Northern frontiers of Dalmatia, and thence through Croatia, Slavonia, the Banat and Transyl...
13. CHAPTER XIV.EXTENT AND NATURE OF THE COUNTRY--BENEFITS RESULTING TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE PARTITION OF POLAND--CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE OF THE ANCIENT SYSTEM--SUPERIOR DEGREE OF SECURITY ENJOYED...