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SCLAVONIA

Volume 9 · 102 words · 1778 Edition

a country of Europe, between the rivers Save, the Drave, and the Danube. It is divided into six counties, viz. Poegra, Zabrab, Creis, Waralden, Zreim, and Walpon; and belongs to the house of Austria. It was formerly called a kingdom; and is very narrow, not being above 75 miles in breadth; but it is 300 in length, from the frontiers of Austria to Belgrade. The eastern part is called Ratzia, and the inhabitants Ratzians. These, from a particular notion, are of the Greek church. The language of Slavonia is the mother of four others, namely, those of Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, and Russia.