Canterbury and its suffragan; effects of the Norman Conquest 181-182 Province of York; Scotland and Ireland 182-183 § 6. _The Ecclesiastical Divisions of Northern and Eastern Europe._ The Scandinavian provinces; Lund, Upsala, Trondhjem 184 Poland and neighbouring lands; Gnezna, Riga, Leopol 184-185 Provinces of Hungary and Dalmatia 186 CHAPTER VIII. THE IMPERIAL KINGDOMS. The German Kingdom; its relation to the Western Empire; falling off of Italy and Burgundy 188-190 Loss of territory by the German kingdom; its extension to the north-east 190-191 Geographical contrast of the earlier and the later Empire 191 § 1. _The Kingdom of Germany._ Changes of boundaries and nomenclature in Germany; Saxony; Bavaria; Austria; Burgundy; Prussia 191-192 Extent of the Kingdom; fluctuations of its western boundary; Lorraine; Elsass; the left bank of the Rhine 192-194 Fluctuations on the Burgundian frontier; union of Burgundy with the Empire 194 Frontier of Germany and Italy; union of the crowns 195 Northern and eastern advance of the Empire; the _marks_ 195 Hungarian frontier; marks of Austria, Carinthia, and Carniola 196 Danish frontier; Danish mark; boundary of the Eider 196 The Slavonic frontier 197 The Saxon mark; Slavonic princes of Mecklenburg, Lübeck; the Hansa 198-199 Marks of Brandenburg, Lausitz, and Meissen 199 Bohemia and Moravia 199 Polish frontier; Pomerania, Silesia 200 Germanization of the Slavonic lands 200-201 Internal geography; growth of the principalities 201 Growth of the marchlands; Brandenburg or Prussia, and Austria; analogies elsewhere 202 Decline of the duchies; end of the _Gauverfassung_ 202 Growth of the House of Austria; separation of Switzerland and the Netherlands 203 The Circles 203 Powers holding lands within and without the Empire; Austria; Sweden; Brandenburg and Prussia; Hannover and Great Britain 203-204 Dissolution of the kingdom; the Confederation 204 Greatness of Prussia and Austria 204 The new Empire 204