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 SCH AUMBURG-Lt PPE — TH I R I N u I A 961

SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE.

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Schaumburg-Lipi>e was proclaimed a Republic in November, 1918. Tbc Constitution bears date March 14, 1919. The Landtag consists of 15 members.

Area, 131 sq. miles ; population (1919), 46,357 (22,148 males and 24,209 females).

For the financial year 1920 the revenue and expenditure were 3,494,598 marks. Public debt, 4,400,000 marks.

Except 715 Catholics and 230 Jews, the inhabitants are Frotestant. Buckebnrg, the capital, had, in 1910, 5,747 inhabitants.

Official Publication.

Schaumburg-Lippische Landesanzeigen bezw. Landesverorduungen.

THTJRINGIA.

K ! N H KIT.-STA AT Till' RINOEN.)

The seven Thuringian States after much negotiation, which commenced in May, 1919, and ended on December 24, 1919, decided to combine into one State. The two Republics ot Reuss had by a law of April 4, 1919, already been merged into the one People's State of Reuss, ami Coburg had elected to merge with Bavaria. The following table *hows the area and population of the separate political entities which have been united into the greater whole : —

Republic

Area in sq. miles

Population Census October 8, 1919

Population I*r sq. mile

Mai- v

Females

Total

191V

Saxe- Weimar-Eisenach

Saxe-MeiniiiRen

Gotba

Saxe-Altenburg

Reuss

Schwarzburg-R'ulolstadl

Schwarzburg-

Sonderhausei

1,397 958 54S

511 441 363

333

126,944

93.2(4 205.35>; 101,3'-.0

97,9'.'.=. 46,993

44,465

143.

• '.03 110.. 114,012 62.34*

27n.ni". 191,491 433,959 211,638 212,007 99,839

193 200 791 414 480 273

280

Total

4,546

716,317

795,5*9

1,511

382

Principal towns with population in 1919 : — Weimar, the capital, 37.237 ; Gera, 73,641 : Gotha, 41,465; Jena, 48,504; Eisenach. 39,229 ; Greiz, 19,995 ; Arnstadt, 19,374 ; Rudolstadt, 12,172 : and Sonderhausen 7.728.

The elections to the fii-st Diet of Thuringia were held in June, 1920, and the Diet adopted the Constitution on March 11, 1921.

President of the SUUe Council. — Dr. A. Paulsen (Democrat).