. Europe and other continents . ninsula?Why? About the rainfall? Why? (5) Compare the number oflarge cities with the number in Germany and Italy. What inferencesdo you draw concerning the condition of the people? (6) Comparethe area of Turkey in Europe with that of your own state. Physiography and Climate.—This double-pointed penin-sula is bounded on one side by the Adriatic and Mediter-ranean seas, onthe other by theiEgean andBlack seas. Itis unlike otherEuropean pen-insulas in hav-ing a very longland al-most its entire extent the surface is mountainous, whichoffe
. Europe and other continents . ninsula?Why? About the rainfall? Why? (5) Compare the number oflarge cities with the number in Germany and Italy. What inferencesdo you draw concerning the condition of the people? (6) Comparethe area of Turkey in Europe with that of your own state. Physiography and Climate.—This double-pointed penin-sula is bounded on one side by the Adriatic and Mediter-ranean seas, onthe other by theiEgean andBlack seas. Itis unlike otherEuropean pen-insulas in hav-ing a very longland al-most its entire extent the surface is mountainous, whichoffers an explanation of the large number of separatecountries on the peninsula. How ? Many of the valleysare suitable to agriculture, the most extensive being theplains of the Danube in Roumania and Bulgaria. The climate varies greatly from mountain to valley andfrom interior to seashore. Along the southern coastthe winters are mild, as elsewhere near the Mediterranean ;but in the northeast, near Russia, hot summers are fol- 338. Fig. view in Bulgaria, showing its rugged surface. THE BALKAN PENINSULA 339 lowed by cold winters, when icy winds sweep down fromthe Russian steppes, and the Danube freezes over. In so mountainous a land there is also much variationin rainfall. On the western slopes, for example near theshores of the Adriatic, there is an abundance of rain : buton the east coast and in the interior valleys, especially inGreece, there is so little rain that agriculture depends
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