Styria

Styria, a duchy of, Austria, 124 miles long by 112 broad, and containing 8,670 square miles, and having Upper and Lower Austria on the N., Carniola on the S., Hungary and Croatia on the E., and Carinthia and Salzburg on the W. It is chiefly mountamous, belonging to the Noric and Carnian Alps, which send out three chains, reaching in the N.W. a height of 7,700 feet (Grimming) and in the S.W. 8,000 feet (Eisenhut.). There are many valleys among the mountains, and in the S.E., in the neighbourhod of the Mur and Drave, the land is level. The rivers Enns, Mur, Drave, and Save belong to the Danube basin. There are many small, beautiful 1akes. The lowlands are fertile, and produce good wine, fruit, flax, hemp, and poppy. Extensive forests afford splendid timber for export and fuel for smelting of metals. Among minerals are iron of good quality and in abundance, copper, cobalt, lead, zinc, gold, silver, sulphur, alum, and rock-salt. The manufacture of edged tools is important. Gratz is the capital. The population is mostly German, except in the S., where the Slavonic element predominates.