GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES MADE BY THE BERLIN TREATY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 284, 11 October 1878, Page 9

GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES MADE BY THE BERLIN TREATY.

(From the London Athrnwum.) The territorial changes effected by the Berlin Treaty are of a most comprehensive nature. By the treaty of San Stcfauo Turkey was called upon to surrender 78.530 square miles, with 4,539,000 inhabitants. The treaty of Berlin deals with 83.300 square miles and 4,882,000 inhabitants, as follows :

Austria 28.123 l.llill.'W 513.000 Formed into the Principality of Bulgaria 24,404 1.773,000 681,500 Includedin Eastern Roumelia 13.G46 740,000 2<>5,000 The inland fortress of Ada Kaleh, recently occupied by Austria, is not referred to in the treaty at all, and will probably remain in the hands of the power which now holds it. Eoumania,"in exchange for the territory ceded, is called upon to surrender 3,270 square miles, with 14.0,000 inhabitants to llussia. The political divisions of the Balkan Peninsula will henceforth be as follows :

But if we exclude the Provinces " indefinitely " to be occupied by Austria, Bulgaria, and Eastern lloumelia. there remain to Turkey only 74,790 square miles, with 4.779.000 inhabitants, of whom 2,.">21 ,500 are Mohammedans. In Armenia llussia takes 10,000 square miles, with about 330.000 inhabitants. Cyprus, intrusted to the keeping of England, has an area of 2.258 square miles, and about 150,000 inhabitants.

>C|uaro Miles. f Iloumauia 40,403 <j Servia 18.516 (Montenegro 2,SOS furkey 140,905 Inhabitants. 5,145).000 1,642.068 210.000 8.350.000 Mohammedans. 143,300 73.500 9.000 3.05L000

square Mile*. Reeled to Rouraania .",98"5 Reeled to Servia 4,?>2i> 2eded to Montenegro 1,.34'J 3cded to Austria 1.5 ?eded to Greece (?) ."3,300 fo be occupied and administered by Inhabitants. 24(5.000 2(34.000 40.000 2.000 7.->O.OJO Mohammedans, 142.00 C 7.1.000 9,00 C 40.000