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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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TyKOLESE PEASANTS. our own day, when Austria has been excluded from it, Austria was made a Duchy in 1156, and an Archduchy in 1453, being enlarged at SeL?r; various periods by the addition of Styria, Carniola, and other ^^^^«- territories. . ^ The Emperor Rudolph, the first Hapsburg Emperor, gained possession of the Austrian domain in 1278, and it has ever since been held by The his descendants. At various times both Bohemia and Hungary dy^Sty^ passed under their rule, but were never thoroughly assimilated,
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DALMATIAN GIRL.173 174 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. and the yoke was always comparatively easily thrown off. The part which Austria played in relation to Spain and the Netherlands, owini;to royal marriages, was complex and important, but weakened its chance Relations of consolidating power at home. Numerous contests with laSars^nd^^^® Turkish Sultans tended however to strengthen their Turks. connection with the Slavs and the Magyars, who were equally hostile to the Turks. At the end of the fifteenth century Austria gained considerable additions of territory in the North-east of the Adriatic ; later, VenetiaConquests in ^^^ Milan became Austrian; and quite modern times have Italy and witnessed their return to Italy and incorporation in the Italian kingdom. In the partitions of Poland, Galicia fell to Austria.Later, Bosnia and Herzegovina have come under Austrian control. In modern times the Austrian Emperor reigns over the Germans of Austria Proper, of Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, and Northern

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