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THE statesman's YEAR-BOOK, 1899
BEI
Beira (Portugal), 880
— (E. Africa), 892, 893
— railway, 213, 893 Bekes-Csaba, 391 Bela, 167
Belem, 436
Belfast, 25 ; Queen's College, 34
— port, 90 Belfort P.C., 536 Belgium, agriculture, 419
— area, 412
— army, 419
— banks, 425, 426
— births, deaths, and marriages,
413
— books of reference, 426
— budget, 417
— Chamber of Representatives, 410 ^ commerce, 421
— constitution, 409
— currency and credit, 425
— customs valuation, 422
— debt, 418
— defence, 418
— diplomatic representatives, 426
— emigration, 413
— exports, 421, 423
— finance, state, 417 ; local, 418
— frontier, 418
— government, 409 local, 411
— immigration, 413
— imports, 421, 423 — • instruction, 414
— justice and crime, 416
— king, 408
— mining and metals, 420, 421
— ministry, 411
— money, weights, and measures,
426
— occupation of the people, 413
— pauperism, 416
— population, 412
— posts and telegraphs, 425
— railways, 425
— religion, 414
— revenue and expenditure, 417
— royal family, 408
— schools, &c. , 415
— Senate, 409
— shipping and navigation, 424
— sugar works, 421
— towns, 414
— universities, 415
BIE
Belgrade, 988, 989 ; University, 989 Bellary, 135
Bell Island (Newfoundland), 243 Bell-town (Kamerun), 612 Belluno, 725 Benadii", 757 Benares, 135 Bender i Gez, 862 Bendigo, 312 Benevento, 725
Bengal, province, government, 127, 139
— area and jtopulation, 129, 136
— army, 145
— revenue, 143
— native states, 131 Benghazi, 1080, 1092 Benguella, 892 Beni (Bolivia), 429 Benin, 208, 209
— settlement, 564 Beni-Shangul (Abyssinia), 336 Benkulen (East Indies), 830 Berar, 129, 136, 148, 149 Berbera, 108, 1123
Berbice, 239, 838
Berdicheff, 915
Bergamo, 725
Bergen, 1044, 1052, 1053
Berlad, 897
Berlin, 580, 660 ; University, 583
— province, area and po^ndation, 658 crime, 663
emigration, 660
religion, 661
Berlinhafen (W. Pacific), 614 Bermudas, 219 ; troops at, 104 Bermudez (Venezuela), 1134, 1137 Bern (canton), 1058, 1060
— (city), 1062 ; University, 1063 Besan(;on,513, 515
Besso, 336
Bessungen, 640
Beyrouth, 1080, 1092
Beziers, 513
Bhagalpur, 135
Bhartpur, state, 131 ; town, 135
Bhaunagar, 135
Bhopal, state, 131 ; town, 135
Bhutan, 427, 428
Biaka (Bhutan), 428
Bibundi (Kamerun), 612
Bida, 210
Bienne, 1062
