The Historical Geography of Europe, Vol. I, TextFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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The Historical Geography of Europe, Vol. I, Text
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Europe -- Historical geography
Title of ‘Emperor of Austria;’ Confederation of the Rhine; end of
the Western Empire 221
German territories of Denmark and Sweden 221-222
Losses of Prussia and Austria; French annexations 222
Kingdoms of Saxony and Westfalia; Grand duchy of Frankfurt 222
Germany wiped out of the map 222
Losses of Prussia; Danzig; duchy of Warsaw 222-223
The German Confederation; princes holding lands within and
without the Confederation; kingdom of Hanover 223
Increase of Prussian territory; dismemberment of Saxony 224
Lands recovered by Austria; German possessions of Denmark and
the Netherlands; Sweden withdraws from Germany 224-225
Comparison of Prussia and Austria; Hannover 225
Kingdoms of Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg; other German states;
the free cities; Lüttich passes to Belgium 226-227
Revival of German national life 227
Affairs of Luxemburg 228-229
War of Sleswick and Holstein; the duchies ceded to Austria
and Prussia 228
War of 1866; North German Confederation; exclusion of Austria;
great advance of Prussia 228-229
War with France; the new German Empire; recovery of
Elsass-Lothringen 229-230
Comparison of the old kingdom and the new Empire; name
of _Prussia_ 230-231
§ 3. _The Kingdom of Italy._
Small geographical importance of the kingdom; changes on the
Alpine frontier 231-232
Case of Trieste 233
Apulia, Sicily, Venice, no part of the kingdom; their relation
to the Eastern Empire 233-234
Special history of the house of Savoy 234
Extent of the kingdom; Neustria and Austria; Æmilia, Tuscany;
Romagna 234-235
Lombardy proper; the marches 235
Comparison of Germany and Italy; the commonwealths, the
tyrants, the Popes; four stages of Italian history 235-236
Northern Italy; the Marquesses of Montferrat; the Lombard
cities; the Veronese march 236-238
Central Italy; Romagna and the march of Ancona; the Tuscan
commonwealths; Pisa and Genoa; Rome and the Popes 238-239
The tyrannies; Spanish dominion: practical abeyance of the
Empire in Italy; Imperial and Papal fiefs 239-240
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