PRINCIPAL TOWNS
725
This classification is founded upon the declarations of intending emigrants made before the syndics (or mayors) of communes on application for passports, and the figures difi'er considerably from those given in the statistics of the various countries mentioned. The ditt'erence is explained chiefiy by the fact that, in many cases, emigration to other European States, intended to be temporary, becomes permanent, the emigrants embarking for America from their temporary home. According to the statistics of the respective countries, the Italian immigrants into the United States in 1897, 59,431 ; Argentina and Uruguay, 48,329.
To the emigration in 1897 the different parts of Italy contributed as follows: — Piemonte, 18,576 (11,938 temporary); Liguria, 3,931 (292 tem- porary); Lombardia, 24,706 (11,118 temporary) ; Veneto, 110,896 (84,860 temporary) ; Emilia, 17,317 (6,042 temporary) ; Toscana^ 16,640 (6,072 tem-
Eorary) ; Marche, 4,803 (133 temporary); Umbria, 1,734 (199 temporary) ; lazio, 6,832 (34 temporary) ; Abruzzi e Slolise, 12,591 (3,135 temporary); Cam- pania, 32,604 (6,749 temporary) ; Puglie, 3,270 (710 temporary) ; I3a.silicata, 8,529 ; Calabrie, 15,557 ; Sicilia, 19,109 (3,115 temporary) ; Sardinia, 2,760 (29 temporary) ; total, 299,855 (134,426 temporary).
The number of Italians abroad in 1891 Avas oflBcially estimated at about 2 000,000.
III. Principal Towns.
The communal population of the capitals of provinces was as follows on December 31, 1897 :—
Towns
Popula- tion
! Towns
Popula-
tion
1
Towns
Popula- tion
Naples .
536,073
Reggio neir
Lecce
32,271
Rome
487,066
Emilia
59,117
Ascoli Piceno .
30,755
Milan
470,558
Ancona .
58,088
Siena
30,468
Turin .
351,855
Parma .
53,421
]\Iantova
29,743
Palermo
287,972
Trapani .
49,992
Cuneo .
28,853
Genoa .
228,862
Foggia . Forli .
47,173
' Avellino
27,805
Florence
209,540
47,092
Pesaro .
26,485
Venice .
155,899
Reggio di Cal .
46,399
Massa .
2.'), 804
Bologna .
153,206
Bergamo
45,929
Benevento
2.^800
Messina .
152,648
Arezzo .
45,289
Siracusa .
25,740
Catania .
129,651
Novara .
45,189
Girgenti
24,851
Leghorn
104,536
Cagliari .
44,624
Macerata
24,770
Ferrara .
89,310
Vicenza .
42,020
Cliieti .
23,112
Padua .
82,210
Sassari .
40,847
Teramo .
21,278
Lucca .
80,559
Pavia
39,058
Aquila degli
•Bari
80,450
Cremona
37,632
Abruzzi
21,202
Alessandria .
77,046
Caltanissetta .
37,467
Coscnza .
20,860
Verona .
72,860
Udine .
37,315
' Potenza .
19,418
Brescia .
67,923
Salerno .
37,310
Belluno .
18,348
Ravenna
67,760
Treviso .
36,120 ,
Campobasso .
15,000
Modena .
(57,658
Catanzaro
35,379 '
Rovigo .
11,800
Pisa
65,516
Piacenza
35,233
Grosseto
9,521
Perugia .
59,762
Caserta .
34,645 '
Sondrio .
9,166
Como
34,177 1
Porto Maurizio
7,557
