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ITALY
Provinces and Compartiiuenti
Area in square miles
Population, Present : Census 1881
Estimated Population Dec. 31, 1896
! Population per square mile, 1898
Males
Females
Total
Caltanisetta
Catania
Girgenti
Messina
Palermo
Siracusa
Trapani
Sicily .
Cagliari Sassari
Sardinia
Total .
1,263 1,917 1,172 1,246 1,948 1,442 948
136,493
280,014 156,034 227,934 352,722 173,295 141,612
129,886 283,443 156,453 232,990 346,429 168,231 142,365
266,379 563,457 312,487 460,924 699,151 341,526 283,977
338,278 695,287 355,832 536,123 856,872 433,786 387,132
267-83
362-70 1
303-61
430-28
439-87
300-82
408-37
9,936
1,468,104
1,459,797
2,927,901
3,603,310
362-65
5,204 4,090
217,497 134,891
203,138 126,476
420,635 261,367
471,950 294,144
90-69 71-92
9,294
352,388
329,614
682,002
766,094
82-43
110,646
14,265,383
14,194,245
28,459,628
31,667,946
286-21
At the time of the census of 1881, the resident or legal population was 28,953,480. The number of foreigners in Italy was 59,956, of Avhom 16,092 were Austrians, 12,104 Swiss, 10,781 French, 7,302 English, 5,234 Germans, 1,387 Prussians, 1,286 Americans (United States), 1,212 Greeks, 922 Spaniards, and the rest mainly Turks, Belgians, Swedes and Norwegians, Dutch, Egyptians, Argentines, Brazilians.
The administrative divisions of Italy are provinces, territories (circondari), districts (distretti), and communes. There are 69 provinces : of which 60 are divided into territories, and 9 (the province of Mantua and the 8 provinces of Venetia) into districts. There are 197 territories and 87 districts. Most of the districts (70) have been 6?e/acto suppressed, though still nominally existing as administrative divisions. The territories and districts are divided into com- munes (comuni), of which at the census of 1881 there were 8,259; the number at present (January, 1898) is 8,263,
The population of Italy is in general perfectly homogeneous. According to statistics of 1861, the exceptions are : about 100,000 of French origin, in the territories of Aosta, Pinerolo, and Susa, in the province of Torino ; from 3,000 to 4,000 of Teutonic origin in some communes of the temtories (circondari) of Domodossola and Varallo, in the province of Novara, and of Aosta, in the province of Torino ; from 55,000 to 60,000 of Albanian origin, in a dozen communes of Nearer Calabria, and in some communes of the provinces of Foggia, Avellino, Potenza, and Palermo; from 20,000 to 25,000 of Greek origin, in a few communes of Nearer and Further Calabria, and of the province of Lecce ; lastly, from 7,000 to 8,000 of Spanish (Catalan) origin, settled in Alghero in the province of Sassari, in Sardinia.
The population over 16 years of age in 1881 was 19,301,420; of these 7,047,163 were unmarried, 10,361,039 were married, and 1,893,218 were widowers or widows. Of the whole population, 16,205,371 or 569 per cent, were unmarried ; 10,361,039 or 36-5 per cent, were married ; and 1,893,218 or 6-6 per cent, were widowers or widows.
The numbers of inhabitants at the different centres do not in Italian statistics alford a suflBcient basis for distinguishing between the urban and rural
