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ITALY

Provinces and Compartiiuenti

Area in square miles

Population, Present : Census 1881

Estimated Population Dec. 31, 1896

! Population per square mile, 1898

Males

Females

Total

Caltanisetta

Catania

Girgenti

Messina

Palermo

Siracusa

Trapani

Sicily.

Cagliari Sassari

Sardinia

Total.

1,263 1,917 1,172 1,246 1,948 1,442 948

136,493

280,014 156,034 227,934 352,722 173,295 141,612

129,886 283,443 156,453 232,990 346,429 168,231 142,365

266,379 563,457 312,487 460,924 699,151 341,526 283,977

338,278 695,287 355,832 536,123 856,872 433,786 387,132

267-83

362-70 1

303-61

430-28

439-87

300-82

408-37

9,936

1,468,104

1,459,797

2,927,901

3,603,310

362-65

5,204 4,090

217,497 134,891

203,138 126,476

420,635 261,367

471,950 294,144

90-69 71-92

9,294

352,388

329,614

682,002

766,094

82-43

110,646

14,265,383

14,194,245

28,459,628

31,667,946

286-21

At the time of the census of 1881, the resident or legal population was 28,953,480. The number of foreigners in Italy was 59,956, of Avhom 16,092 were Austrians, 12,104 Swiss, 10,781 French, 7,302 English, 5,234 Germans, 1,387 Prussians, 1,286 Americans (United States), 1,212 Greeks, 922 Spaniards, and the rest mainly Turks, Belgians, Swedes and Norwegians, Dutch, Egyptians, Argentines, Brazilians.

The administrative divisions of Italy are provinces, territories (circondari), districts (distretti), and communes. There are 69 provinces : of which 60 are divided into territories, and 9 (the province of Mantua and the 8 provinces of Venetia) into districts. There are 197 territories and 87 districts. Most of the districts (70) have been 6?e/acto suppressed, though still nominally existing as administrative divisions. The territories and districts are divided into com- munes (comuni), of which at the census of 1881 there were 8,259; the number at present (January, 1898) is 8,263,

The population of Italy is in general perfectly homogeneous. According to statistics of 1861, the exceptions are : about 100,000 of French origin, in the territories of Aosta, Pinerolo, and Susa, in the province of Torino ; from 3,000 to 4,000 of Teutonic origin in some communes of the temtories (circondari) of Domodossola and Varallo, in the province of Novara, and of Aosta, in the province of Torino ; from 55,000 to 60,000 of Albanian origin, in a dozen communes of Nearer Calabria, and in some communes of the provinces of Foggia, Avellino, Potenza, and Palermo; from 20,000 to 25,000 of Greek origin, in a few communes of Nearer and Further Calabria, and of the province of Lecce ; lastly, from 7,000 to 8,000 of Spanish (Catalan) origin, settled in Alghero in the province of Sassari, in Sardinia.

The population over 16 years of age in 1881 was 19,301,420; of these 7,047,163 were unmarried, 10,361,039 were married, and 1,893,218 were widowers or widows. Of the whole population, 16,205,371 or 569 per cent, were unmarried ; 10,361,039 or 36-5 per cent, were married ; and 1,893,218 or 6-6 per cent, were widowers or widows.

The numbers of inhabitants at the different centres do not in Italian statistics alford a suflBcient basis for distinguishing between the urban and rural