Calabria

Calabria, a fertile prov. embraced in the SW. peninsula of Italy, and traversed by the Apennines, with tunny and anchovy fisheries; yields grains and fruits, and a variety of minerals; is inhabited by a race of somewhat fiery temper; is much subject to earthquakes.

Population (circa 1900) given as 1,500,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)