Salzkammergut
called the Austrian Switzerland, one of the most picturesque districts of Europe; between the Austrian province of Salzburg on the W. and Styria on the E.; area, about 250 square miles. The scenery combines in rare beauty the features of valley, mountain, and lake. The highest peak, the Dachstein, reaches an altitude of 9,830 feet. But the district derives its principal attraction from its lakes, the most famous of which are Hallstatt, Traun or Gmunden, Atter, St. Wolfgang or Aber, Mond, and Zell. It derives its name of "Saltexchequer Property" from its salt springs and mines, which yield over 80,000 tons of salt annually. The chief seats of the salt works are Ischl, Hallstatt, and Eben- Little or no agriculture is carried see. on; the inhabitants not engaged in the salt industry are employed in cattle breeding and in the timber trade.
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Samar
the third largest of the Philippine Islands; S. E. of the E. part of the Island of Luzon, from which it is separated by the Strait of San Bernardino; and the extreme E. of the Visayan group. On the S. W. it is separated from the island of Leyte by the Strait of San Juanico. The W. coast is bounded by the Western Sea, and the E. coast by the Pacific Ocean. The island is mainly mountainous, although there are many fine valleys under cultivation. Samar extends 130 miles from N. W. to S. E., 50 miles from the E. to W., and has an area with adjacent islands of 5,031 square miles. Pop. about 266,237. Samar and islands adjoining were made a province under civil government in 1902. The products of the island are such as are found in all the archipelago. There are many fine kinds of woods, numerous varieties of wild fruits, various kinds of bamboo, roots suitable for food, rattan, game, and fish. Besides cocoanuts there is a large production of oil, rice and hemp.
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Samara
a town in Russia, capital of the province of the same name, in eastern Russia. It is situated at the juncture of the rivers Volga and Samara, 550 miles southeast of Moscow. It is the center of an extensive grain producing region and its chief industry before the World War was flour milling. Pop. about 145,000. The province has an area of 59,000 square miles, and about 4,000,000 inhabitants, many of whom are descendants of German colonists.
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Samarang
a seaport of Java, 255 miles E. of Batavia, the principal port for the trade of Middle Java. Since 1873 it has been connected with Jokjokarta and Surabaya by railway. The European quarters have all the appearance of a typical Dutch town. The more important buildings are a military hospital, the city hall, and Christian churches and schools. A fort and a coast battery provide defense for the town. The river is silted up at its mouth; but a canal, constructed in 1879, serves as a harbor. The roadstead is exposed exposed dur during the W. monsoon. Pop. (1918) 106,852.
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Samaria
a city and country of
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Sambre
a river of France and Belgium; a tributary of the Meuse, which it enters at Namur; length 110 miles, great part of which is useful for navigation.
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Samnites
a people of ancient Italy, that inhabited the country between Apulia on the E. and Latium and Campania on the W.; a brave and warlike nation, they distinguished themselves by their implacable hatred of the Romans, with whom from their earliest existence as a people they waged a perpetual hostility. They were, however, ultimately compelled to succumb before the growing power of Rome, and after a succession of disasters were finally exterminated about 290 b. C. Their capital city was called Samnium, or Samnis. The term Samnites was subsequently applied to an order of Roman gladiators, so named because accoutred and armed in the fashion of the ancient nation of Samnites.
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Samodivi
(See Slavs .) St. Martin was never married, but he appears to have exercised a most extraordinary fascination over women: Samothracian Mysteries : (See Greece .) and in fact divers scandalous stories are told in this relation, Samovile: (See Slavs.) some of them implicating various courtly dames of the Samoyeds: (See Siberia .) French nobility of the Empire. As a philosopher St. Martin found a host of disciples among his contemporaries, these gradually forming themselves almost into a distinct sect, and, as observed before, acquiring the name of "Martinistes." What, then, was the teaching of their leader ? and what the nature of the tenets promulgated in his voluminous writings? It is difficult to give an epitome in
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Samolus
a genus of plants, order Primulaceæ. They are herbs with alternate leaves, and flowers corymbose or racemose. S. valerandi, the water pimpernel, found in wet, gravelly places throughout the world, is one foot high, and has small, white flowers, the corolla of which is twice the length of the calyx.
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Samos
now SAMO, an island in the Grecian Archipelago, near the coast of Asia Minor; 45 miles S. W. of Smyrna, formerly belonging to Turkey, and now a possession of Greece; area, 180 square miles. It has a mountainous surface, partly covered with pine forests; several fertile and well-watered valleys; produces corn, fruit, and excellent wine; and has several valuable minerals, including argentiferous lead, iron, and marble. The principal town is Vathy, with a good harbor on the N. E. side of the island. The principal exports are raisins, skins, wine, and oil; imports, grain, colonial produce, and woven fabrics. Samos was inhabited in antiquity by Ionian Greeks, and had an important position among the Greek communities as early as the 7th century b. c. In the latter half of the 6th century it was in a specially flourishing condition under Polycrates, and subsequently was under the domination of Athens. In 84 B. c. it was united with the Roman province of Asia. In 1550 it was co uered by the Turks. It now occupies an exceptional position, having been erected into a tributary principality of the Sublime Porte în 1832, the ruler being a Greek prince. During the Balkan War of 1912 the Greeks seized the island. Pop. about 69,000.
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