Livonia, Russian Baltic province on the Gulf of Riga; is flat and marshy, and only moderately fertile; produces rye, barley, and potatoes; its chief industries are distilling, brewing, and iron-founding, and fishing; four-fifths of the population are Letts and Esthonians, only 5 per cent. are Russian; the original Finnic Livonians are almost extinct; capital Riga (180).
Population (circa 1900) given as 1,260,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Livius, Titus (Livy) * Livraison