Istria, a mountainous territory of Austria, in the NE. corner of the Adriatic; yields olive-oil, figs, and vines, though often swept by sirocco and bora winds.
Population (circa 1900) given as 299,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Isthmian Games * Isumbras, St.