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Title: Europe of to-day
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Unstead, J. F. (John Frederick), 1876-1965
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s with other countries. In the Austrian Empire were included the followingareas (compare the map in Fig. 6 showing the boun-daries before the Great War with that in Fig. 8 showingthe peoples) :~- (i) The north-eastern Alpine regions and the lowerlands of Austria Proper, both of which are inhabited bythe German-speaking Austrians ; (2) The Alpine region drained by the Adige, of whichthe part above Bozen is inhabited by Austrians, butthe southern part around Trent, and hence known as theTrentino, is inhabited by Italians ; (3) Bohemia and Moravia, inhabited largely byCzechs ; (4) Galicia, the region lying north-east of the Car-pathians, inhabited largely by Poles and Ruthenians ; (5) The mountainous region behind Trieste, and theDalmatian coast of the Adriatic, inhabited in part byItalians but mainly by Jugo-Slavs. In the Hungarian Kingdom were included : (i) The Hungarian plains inhabited largely by Magyars ; (2) The Northern Carpathian region inhabited largely by Slovaks ; AUSTRIA 115
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Emery Walker Ltd. sc. Fig. 6-—Boundary Changes in Central Europe. ii6 EUROPE OF TO-DAY (3) The Transylvanian region inhabited largely byRumanians ; (4) The region between Fiume and the Drave river,inhabited by Jugo-Slavs. Bosnia and Herzogovina were annexed in 1908 fromTurkey by the Dual Monarchy, that is, by the jointgovernment of Austria-Hungary ; they are inhabited byJugo-Slavs. In each part of the Dual Monarchy the governmentwas in the hands of a small group of people ; the wealthyand powerful governing class among the Germans inAustria, and the corresponding class among the Magyarsin Hungary. The subject-peoples of different nationalitywere in each case kept from power and quite frequentlykept in a very lowly position. This was particularly thecase in Hungary, where the Magyars tried to force theMagyar language upon the other peoples, so that almostthe only schools allowed were for Magyar-speaking chil-dren. In this way the subject peoples were kept unedu-cated, and so they wer

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