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A single village often contains many thatched huts. There are five million followers of Protestantism Poluoteshidun jiao: a phonetic rendering of Protestantism and over two million one hundred thousand followers of Catholicism Jiadelie jiao: a phonetic rendering of Catholicism; all of them practice the Greek religion E-li jiao: referring to the Eastern Orthodox Church Wei Yuan uses this term to categorize the various Christian denominations prevalent in the region, noting their shared roots despite their sectarian differences. Their languages are diverse. Regarding the harvest from their farming, the people keep eight parts for themselves, give one part to the temples referring to the church tithe, and one part to the government officials.
In their dress, they favor the color blue; they do not shave their heads but instead braid their hair. They wear small round caps on their heads, with broad-brimmed hats placed over them. The land produces woolen cloth, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, salt, coal, silk, hair, honey, camphor, tobacco, and ramie.
Bordered on the east by Turkey original: Tuluji, the Ottoman Empire and on the west by Styria original: Sedilia, referring to the Austrian duchy of Styria; it is a dependency of Austria.
The territory covers 133,000 square li a Chinese unit of distance; 133,000 square li is a 19th-century Chinese estimate of the kingdom's area. The population consists of 12.6 million people. There are nine large divisions and two hundred and ninety-two small divisions.
original: Xia Na-lü-mi. Bordered on the east by Upper Hungary, on the north by Lower Hungary The text likely contains a clerical error here, as it lists the northern border as the region itself; it likely refers to Upper Hungary or a neighboring Slovakian/Danubian district, on the south by Sige-na likely Slavonia, and on the west by Austria.
Governs the small divisions—