It seems hardly needful for the understanding of European history to carry our ecclesiastical survey beyond the limits of the Latin Church. One of the Polish provinces, that of Leopol, has carried us to the borderland of the Eastern and Western Churches, and, if we pass southwards into the Magyar and South-Slavonic lands, we find ourselves still more distinctly on an ecclesiastical march. ♦Hungary. | Strigonium. | Kolocza.♦ The Kingdom of Hungary formed two Latin provinces, those of _Strigonium_ or Gran, and of _Kolocza_; the latter has a very fluctuating boundary to the south. ♦Dalmatia.♦ The Dalmatian coast, the borderland of all powers and of all religions, formed three Latin provinces. ♦Zara.♦ _Jadera_ or _Zara_, on her peninsula, was the head of a small province chiefly made up of islands. ♦Spalato.♦ Another metropolitan had his throne in the very mausoleum of Diocletian, and the province of _Spalato_ stretched some way inland over the lands which have so often changed masters. ♦Ragusa.♦ To the south, the see of _Ragusa_, the furthest outpost of Latin Christendom properly so called, had, besides its own coasts and islands, an indefinite frontier inland. This marks the furthest extent to which it is needful to trace our ecclesiastical map. It is the furthest point at which Latin Christianity can be said to be in any sense at home. The ecclesiastical organization of the crusading and Venetian conquests further to the south and east have but little bearing on historical geography. But, within the bounds of Latin Christendom, the ecclesiastical divisions both of the provinces and dioceses within the older Empire and what we may call the missionary provinces beyond it, are of the highest importance, and they should always be kept in mind alongside of the political geography. CHAPTER VIII. THE IMPERIAL KINGDOMS. ♦The Kingdom of the _East-Franks_ or of _Germany_.♦