. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . he inner belt of dry mountainousuplands support pastoral occupations, except in the rivervalleys where agriculture takes place ; the lands south ofthe Drave, together with the Banat (both gained fromHungary), are noted for their agriculture and stock-rearing (in the Banat the summers are hot enough forrice); whilst in old Serbia, where the climate is conti-nental in character, the oak and beech forests of the hillssupport enormous numbers of pigs, and in the plains,wheat and maize, tobacco, wine and plums (for brandyand
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . he inner belt of dry mountainousuplands support pastoral occupations, except in the rivervalleys where agriculture takes place ; the lands south ofthe Drave, together with the Banat (both gained fromHungary), are noted for their agriculture and stock-rearing (in the Banat the summers are hot enough forrice); whilst in old Serbia, where the climate is conti-nental in character, the oak and beech forests of the hillssupport enormous numbers of pigs, and in the plains,wheat and maize, tobacco, wine and plums (for brandyand prunes) are very important cultivations. In many parts of the new country minerals are knownto exist, but, except in Serbia, very little mining takesplace. Belgrade, the capital, is built on high ground at theconfluence of the Save and the Danube, a position ofconsiderable importance, since the Danube is a great,navigable international river. The city also commandsthe Orient route to Constantinople via the valley of theMorava. Nish stands on the Nishava just before its. 1 TO lo>4CK)M. Fig. 73.—Vugo-Slavia. TIIK BALKAN PENINSULA 277 confluence with the Morava. The Nishava valley carriesthe Orient route eastwards, whilst the Upper Moravaand the Vardar valleys lead the Salonika railway duesouthwards. Nish is therefore a very important railwaycentre. Uskiib, a very ancient city, stands in the upperVardar basin and commands the lowest part of thewatershed between the Morava and Vardar basins. Thechief Adriatic ports are Spalato and Ragusa. The latteris reached by a railway from Buda-Pest which utilises thevalley of the Brosna, and passes through Serayevo, thechief city of Bosnia, a city which has many claims,especially on the grounds of site, to selection as thecapital of the new country. The great mass of the people of this new country areSlavs (akin to the Russians), and 80 per cent, of them areagriculturists who own theirown land. In the past theirdifferences in religion, l
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