Upper Adige Valley 25,000 Trentino 373,000 Triest 142,000 Austrian Friuliland 93,000 Istria 148,000 Dalmatia 30,000 Fiume 26,000 ------- Total 837,000 [53] G. de Lucchi: Trentino e Tirolo, _Boll. 16, Minist. Aff. Esteri_, Rome, 1915, p. 70. [54] A. Dauzat: Les vallées italiennes de langue allemande, _A Travers le Monde_, 1913, Sept. 6, pp. 285-286. [55] O. Noel, Histoire du commerce du monde, Paris, 1891, Vol. 2, pp. 148-168. [56] B. Auerbach: Races et nationalités en Autriche-Hongrie, Paris, 1898, p. 86. [57] Scheller, Deutsche u. Romanen in Südtirol u. Venetien, _Pet. Mitt._, 1877, pp. 365-385. [58] A. Galanti: I diritti storici ed etnici dell’ Italia sulle terre irredente, _La Geogr._, Vol. 3, Nos. 3-4, March-April 1915, p. 88. [59] A. Galanti: I Tedeschi sul versante meridionale delle Alpi, Typ. Acad. Lincei, Rome, 1885, p. 185. [60] According to press reports in 1915 Dante’s monument was destroyed by the Austrians. [61] G. de Lucchi: Trentino e Tirolo, _Boll. 16, Minist. Aff. Esteri_, Rome, 1915. [62] O. Keude: Italien und die Dalmatienische Inselfrage, _Kartogr. Zeits._, Vienna, Nov. 15, 1915. [63] Austrian census returns have been the object of frequent criticism in non-Germanic countries. The political interests of the Austrian government may have led its officials to minimize the importance of the language spoken by dissenting peoples. A tendency to overestimate the spread of German has always been suspected. A common practice consists in forming artificial administrative districts so as to create German numerical superiority within their borders. As a rule an increase of 10 per cent in the number of Slavs, Rumanians and Italians can be safely added to the figures set forth in government statistics. Conversely the same percentage may be subtracted with safety from the totals for Germans and Hungarians. [64] Italian predominates in both Zara and Spalato, the latter city being second in commercial importance along the Dalmatian coast. It is estimated that, in all, more than 18,000 Italians inhabit Dalmatia. [65] Triest and its environs are peopled mainly by Italians. The suburbs are inhabited by crowded Slavic settlements. The census of 1910 shows 118,960 Italians, 57,920 Slovenes, 11,860 Germans and 2,400 Croats. For Istria returns of the same date give: Italians 147,417, Serbo-Croatians 168,184, Slovenes 55,134. [66] M. Wutte: Das Deutschtum in Österreichischen Küstenland, _Deutsche Erde_, Vol. 8, 1909, p. 202. [67] G. Canastrelli: Il numero degli Slavi in Friuli, _Riv. Geogr. It._, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2, Jan-Feb. 1914, pp. 96-102. [68] O. Marinelli: Il numero degli Albanesi in Italia, _Riv. Geogr. It._, Vol. 20, pp. 364-367; A. Similari: Gli Albanesi in Italia, loro costumi e poesie popolari, Naples, 1891.