The Armenians in the Austrian dominions are descended from those who, towards the conclusion of the seventeenth century, removed from Asia and settled in Transylvania, where there are now upwards of eleven hundred families. Most of them dwell in the towns of Armienstadt and Ebesfalva, the first of which was named after them. In the sequel others of this nation fixed their abode in Hungary, where there is not found any considerable community of of them excepting at Neusatz, in the country of Bartsch. In Galicia also they are so numerous as to have an archbishop at Lemberg, the capital of that province. The same causes which have transferred Armenians into Austria have also brought thither Greeks, Macedonians and Albanians. The people of these different nations indeed are not numerous, there being scarcely six hundred families of them in Transylvania, in which province most of them reside. Naturally industrious, these foreigners have proved very useful to Austria, and the city of Cronstadt is indebted to them for the establishment of several important manufactures. It is in Moravia alone that we find a few of those Walloon families, who serve to remind the spectator of the glorious period when the crowns of Austria and Spain were united on the same head. CHAPTER III. RELIGIONS--ROMAN CATHOLICS--GREEK CHURCH--ARMENIANS--PROTESTANTS--SOCINIANS--JEWS--MAHOMETANS. All the sects of the Christian religion are to be found in Austria, and the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks, are more or less numerous in the different provinces. Such a diversity of religious opinions cannot fail to have a considerable influence on the minds and manners of the inhabitants. The Roman Catholic is the religion both of the sovereign and of the state. The great majority of the inhabitants of Austria profess this religion, which was long the only one tolerated in the provinces composing this empire. Joseph II. however, sensible of the injustice of proscribing persons on account of their religious opinions, issued an edict granting toleration to the professors of all creeds. Since that time the different Christian sects, the Jews and even the Mahometans, have enjoyed liberty of conscience in the Austrian dominions.