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AU STRIA-HUN GARY [austria: the Germans, 28 per cent, are in Lower Austria ; 25*5 per Tlie transmarine emigration averaged per year, from 1889 Of cent, in Bohemia; 10 per cent, in Styria ; 9 per cent, in Upper to 1893, 38,240; from 1894 to 1898, 31,218 persons. Austria ; 8 per cent, in Moravia; 5 per cent, in Tirol; the Of these emigrants two-thirds went to North America, rest being scattered over all the other Austrian lands. Of the and almost all the rest to Brazil, Argentina, and Bohemians, Moravians, and Slovaks, 66 per cent, are in Bohemia ‘r 29 per cent, in Moravia; 2 per cent, in Silesia ; 1 "7 per cent, in Uruguay. Lower Austria. The Poles are found almost exclusively in Galicia At the censuses of 1880 and 1890, the different races, as deter- (94’4 per cent.) and Silesia (4"8 per cent.). The Ruthenians mined by the different languages spoken by them, were represented occupy Galicia (91*3 percent.) and Bukovina (8'6 percent). Of the Slovenes 39"6 per cent, are in Carniola- ; 34 per cent, in Styria ; as follows:— 17"5 per cent, in the Coast Province ; 8 6 per cent in Carinthia. In percentages of the Home-born Of Servians and Croats, 77"7 per cent, were counted in Dalmatia Population. and 21"9 per cent, in the Coast Province. Of the Italians 53 "2 per cent, are settled in Tirol; 43 "6 per cent, in the Coast Province ; 1890. 1SS0. 2 "4 per cent, in Dalmatia. The Rumanians are confined almost exclusively in Bukovina (99"6 per cent.). The Magyars belonging to 36-05 36-75 Germans . . . • the Austrian state are to be found only in Bukovina. Of Austrian 23-31 23 77 Bohemians, Moravians, Slovaks lands, Lower and Upper Austria, Salzburg, and Yorarlberg are 15-84 14-86 Poles .... almost purely German. In Styria 68 per cent, of the popula13-23 12-83 Ruthenians. tion is German, and 32 per cent. Slovenes. In Carinthia, 5-01 5-23 Slovenes 71'5 per cent, of the population is German, against 28'5 per 2-75 2Servians and Croats cent, of Slovenes. In Tirol 555 per cent, of the population 2-88 30 Italians and Ladini is German and 45 per cent. Italian. In Silesia 48 per cent, of 0-89 0-88 Rumanians . the population is German, against 30 per cent, of Poles and 0-04 0-05 Magyars 22 per cent, of Czechs. In Bohemia the Czechs preponderate to4

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the extent of 63 percent, of the population against 3/ per cent, of Germans. Moravia is divided between 70 per cent. Czechs and 30 per cent. Germans. In Carinthia the Slovenes constitute 94 per cent, of the population, the Germans only 6 per cent. In the Coast Province 45 per cent, of the population is Italian, 31 per cent. Slovenes, and 21 per cent. Serbo-Croats, the Germans composing only 2-3 per cent. Galicia has a population 53 per cent. Polish, 43 per cent. Ruthenian, and 3‘5 per cent. German. In Bukovina the Ruthenians form 42 per cent, of the population,

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side by side with a Rumanian population 32 per cent., a German population 21 per cent., Poles 3-7 per cent., and Magyars 1'3 per cent. Of the total population 91 per cent, belong to the Catholic Church, and by far the greatest part of the Catholics are Catholics according to the Roman rite. Catholics of the Greek and the Armenian rite are con-