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 AREA AND POPULATION

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Area and Population.

Old Greece (before 1912) comprises continental Greece, the Peloponnesus to the south of the Gulf of Corinth, the Aegean Island of Eubu-a, the Cy- clades (about 220 islands, iucluding Syra, Naxos, Andros, Tinos, Mikonos, Thermia. Seriphos, Paros, ami Amorgos), the Sporades Islands (about 20), and the islands in the Ionian Sea, including Corfu, /.ante, Santa Maura, and Cephalonia.

New Greece consists of Macedonia, Epulis, Crete, and the other Aegean Islands.

At the census of 1879 Greece had a population (including that of The&aaly in 1881) of 1,973,768 : in 1889, 2,18S.00S ; in 1896, 2,433,806; on October 27, 1907, 2,631,952. In 1896 the population consisted of 1,266,816 males and 1,166,990 females; in 1907, 1,321,942 males and 1,307,010 femalea <dd territo .765,000. The area of Old Greece

was about 25,014 square miles, and thus had about 105 inhabitants to the square mile. The population of the nomes or departments into which Greece is divided is as follows : —

Divisions of Olii Territory

Divisions of New Territory

Departments

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Departments

Population (Provisional Census 1913

Attica and Bceotta. 407,003

Pluitiotis a:

Acarnania and .Etolia

Acbaia and Elis

Argolis and C*rinthia

Arcadia ... 1(

Laconia ...

. . Gubcen ... 11 Cyclades ... Corfu .... Cephalonia Zante .... Larissa ... Trikkala Arta .... ij.441

Mated i n Salonica. S^rres Drama Knzani Fiorina.

Epirut : — Yanina.

■ Uland* : — Mytilene

.

Canea

Heraclion (Candia). Sfakia ... Lasithion Rethyinnos.

Total new territories

io6,3"7

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324,946

77,159

110,014 25,027 62,611 61.33<>

336,150

2.101,616

Total. . .',643,109

The acquisition of new territories by Greece, obtained as the result of

ir with Turkey from October 17, 1912, to May 30, 1913, and with

Bulgaria from June 30, to August 10. 1913, gave the country a total area

of 41,933 square miles with an estimated total population (1914) of 4,821,300.

The new territory is 16,919 square miles in extent.

The Powers, in accordance with the Treaties of London and of Athens, have

decided thu : ,\\\ retain all those Aegean islands which she occupied

during the war, except Imbros, Tenedos, and Castellorizzo, which were to be

ed to Turkey. In the meantime Greece is in occupation of all the islands.

T'u. -.• lui-lui'.r Crete and Samos.

As a result ol the Great War of 1914 IS, Greece, with the consent of the Allied and Associated Powers, baa occupied part of Bulgarian (Western) Thrace