Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the nineteen great administrative provinces into which the present empire of Austria-Hungary is divided.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy.
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Examples
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Moses Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in Brody, a middle-sized city a few miles from the Russian border in the imperial crownland of Galicia.
Emperor of Nostalgia Coetzee, J.M. 2002
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Goritz, capital of the crownland of Goritz and Gradisca, twenty-two miles northwest of Trieste; severe fighting is in progress on Monte
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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It was incorporated with Galicia in a single province in 1786, but was separated from it in 1849, and made a separate crownland.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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BUKOVINA, a duchy and crownland of Austria, bounded E. by Russia and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Rumanian principalities; Austria opposed this and, in return for this service, the Porte ceded to Austria Upper Moldavia (the present crownland of Bucovina).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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It is a crownland with an area of 1987 square miles and a population of 727,000 persons.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Danube, and from the district of the Lungau in Southern Salzburg through Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, the crownland of Görz-Gradiska, and a large part of Friuli.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Whilst occupied with his botanical garden, he was also delivering lectures on botany and spent his holidays for thirty years in making researches in the crownland of Carniola.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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A duchy and Austrian crownland, divided by the River Mur into Upper and Lower Styria.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The territorial limits of the diocese corresponded to those of the crownland of Upper Austria with the addition of several parishes of Salzburg, to the separation of which the Archbishop of Salzburg gave his consent in 1786.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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