The international geography . hrough theFranconian Jura to an eastern tributary of the Neckar. Between the Illerand Lech lies the Swabian district of the kingdom of Bavaria. Augsburg,the former chief town of the Alpine Foreland, stands on the Lech. Itdates from Roman times, and remained a very important commercialcentre until the fifteenth century, on account of the Oriental good? brought over the Alpine passes from Italyand down the Lech valley. The road forkedat Augsburg westward to Ulm and north-ward through the Franconian Jura. Theeastern portion of the Foreland is the originalcountry of B
The international geography . hrough theFranconian Jura to an eastern tributary of the Neckar. Between the Illerand Lech lies the Swabian district of the kingdom of Bavaria. Augsburg,the former chief town of the Alpine Foreland, stands on the Lech. Itdates from Roman times, and remained a very important commercialcentre until the fifteenth century, on account of the Oriental good? brought over the Alpine passes from Italyand down the Lech valley. The road forkedat Augsburg westward to Ulm and north-ward through the Franconian Jura. Theeastern portion of the Foreland is the originalcountry of Bavaria, which became a king-dom in 1806 and secured as an extensionthe Swabian district as well as the three dis-tricts of Franconia in the basin of the (Miinchen), on the Isar, has grown-Munich ^P ^^^^^ ^^^ thirteenth century, and suc- ceeded Augsburg as the royal kings have beautified the city by the erection of many fine build-ings, and made it the centre q| South G^rJnan art, especially painting,. The German Empire 285 and of art industries. It is the greatest beer-brewing town in the world,and the chief grain market for the non-agricultural region of theBavarian plateau and the Bavarian Alps ; but, above all, it has a greatfuture as a commercial centre on account of the railways convergingto it from the north, from the south over the Brenner Pass and down theInn valley, from Paris on the west and Vienna on the east. The lack ofcoal in the Alpine Foreland has restricted manufactures. Regensburg{Ratisbon), the old residence of the Dukes of Bavaria, stands on theDanube at the most northerly point reached by that river, where in theearly Middle Ages the incoming Bavarians first encountered it as theycame from Bohemia, and where in antiquity the Romans erected a fortagainst the independent German tribes. South-West German Districts and Towns.—The Garden ofGermany is the name fondly given to the rich, flat plain of the Upper Rhine,aglow with varied ag
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