Calabria
a name anciently given to the peninsula at the S. E. extremity of Italy, but now applied to the S. W. peninsula in which Italy terminates , from about lat. 40° N. to the Strait of Messina; area, 5,819 square miles; pop. about 1,500,000. It is divided into three provinces-Cosenza, Reggio, and Catanzaro. The central region is occupied by the great Apennine ridge, to which whole colonies with their cattle migrate in the summer. The flats near the coast are marshy and unhealthy, but the valleys at the foot of the mountains are rich with the most luxuriant vegetation.
The country is subject to earthquakes and suffered severely in 1905 and 1908. in in 1905 and 1908.
Wheat, rice, saffron, anise, liquorice, madder, flax, hemp, olives, almonds, and cotton are raised in abundance. The sugar-cane also comes to perfection here. Sheep, horned cattle, and horses Silkworms are extenare numerous. sively raised. The minerals include alabaster, marble, gypsum, alum, chalk, rock-salt, lapis lazuli, etc. The fisheries are valuable.