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LOMBARDY

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOMBARDY , a territorial See also:

division of See also:Italy, bounded N. by The See also:total See also:population of Lombardy was 4,334,099. In most of the See also:Alps, S. by See also:Emilia, E. by See also:Venetia and W. by See also:Piedmont. the provinces of Lombardy there are far more villages than It is divided into eight provinces, See also:Bergamo, See also:Brescia, See also:Como, in other parts of Italy except Piedmont; this is attributable See also:Cremona, See also:Mantua, See also:Milan, See also:Pavia and See also:Sondrio, and has an See also:area partly to their mountainous See also:character, partly perhaps to See also:security of 9386 sq. m. Milan, the See also:chief See also:city, is the greatest railway from attack by See also:sea (contrast the See also:state of things in See also:Apulia). centre of Italy; it is in See also:direct communication not only with the Previous to the fall of the See also:Roman See also:republic Lombardy formed other See also:principal towns of Lombardy and the See also:rest of Italy but a See also:part of Gallia Transpadana, and it was Lombardy, Venetia also with the larger towns of See also:France, See also:Germany and See also:Switzerland, and Piedmont, the portion of the See also:Italian See also:peninsula N. of the Po, that did not receive citizenship in 89 B.c. but only Latin rights. Balinese frequently occur. See also:Lombok has been divided since 1898 into the See also:West, See also:Middle and See also:East Lombok. Its chief towns are Mataram, Praya and Sisi. On the west See also:coast the See also:harbour of Ampanam is the most frequented, though, on See also:account of heavy breakers, it is often difficult of approach. The Sasaks are estimated at 320,000, the Balinese at 50,000, Europeans number about 40, See also:Chinese 300, and See also:Arabs 170. See A. R. See also:Wallace, See also:Malay See also:Archipelago (See also:London, 1869, and later See also:editions).

The famous " Wallace's See also:

Line " runs immediately west of Lombok, which therefore has an important part in the See also:work. See also:Captain W. Cool, With the Dutch in the East (See also:Amsterdam and London, 1897), in Dutch and See also:English, is a narrative of the events sketched above, and contains many particulars about the See also:folklore and dual religions of Lombok, which, with See also:Bali, forms the last stronghold of See also:Hinduism east of See also:Java.

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