Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- This side of the Leitha, a river flowing partly along the boundary between Hungary and the archduchy of Austria: applied to that division of the Austro-Hungarian empire having its seat in Vienna. See
Austrian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
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Bohemia or Bojohemum), a cisleithan (i.e. west of the River Leitha) crown province of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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