TREVISIO, a delegation of the Austrian kingdom of Lombardy, which extends over 721 square miles, and contains 51,600 inhabitants, and yields abundance of corn, oil, wine, and silk. The capital is the city of the same name on the navigable river Sil, where the Rottinga and the Piave-Sella pour into it their streams. It is ancient and built, is surrounded with walls, and has large plazas, with houses built on piazzas. It contains a cathedral and twenty-seven other churches, several monasteries and convents, and 2600 houses, with 15,100 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the various branches of the silk trade, but also print calicoes, make cottons, linens, and cutlery ware. It has a great annual fair. Long. 11. 8. 10. E. Lat. 45. 19. 30. N.
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