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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13705	A briefe description of the whole worlde wherein are particularly described all the monarchies, empires, and kingdomes of the same, with their seuerall titles and situations thereunto adioyning.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1599 (1599)	STC 24.5; ESTC S4483	38,383	66

but to returne againe like to the wilde Irish so that no man was sure when he had obtained any victorie ouer them These were the people that gaue the great ouerthrow to that rich Marcus Crassus of Rome who by reason his couetousnesse intending more to his getting of gold then to the guiding of his armie was slaine himselfe many thousands of the Romanos The Parthians with exprobration of his thirst after mony powring molten gold into his mouth after he was dead Against these the great Lucullus fought many battailes but the Romanes were neuer able to bring them quite in subiection On the West-side of Parthia the Mare Caspium being on the North. Armenia on the West and Persia on the South Here lieth that country which in times past was called Media but now Shiruan or Seruan which is at this day gouerned by many inferiour Kings and Princes which are tributaries and do owe subiection to the Sophy of Persia So that he is the soueraigne Lord of all Media as our English men haue founde who passing through the dominion of the Emperour of Russia haue crossed the Mare Caspium and m●rchandised with the inhabitants of this Media This Nation in former time was verie famous for the Medes were they that remoued the Empire from the Assirians vnto them which as in themselues it was nor great So when by Cyrus it was loyned by the Persians it was verie mightie and called by the name of the Empire of the Medes and Persians Here it was that Afryages reigned the grandfather of Cyrus and Darius of the Medes the chiefe citie of this kingdome was called Ecbatana as the chiefe citie of Persia is Babylon De Armenia Assyria ON the West side of the Mare Caspium and of Media lieth a countrie called by a generall name Armenia which is by some distinctlie deuided into three partes the North part whereof being but little is called Georgia the middle part Turcomania and the thirde part by the proper name of Armenia by which a man may see the reason of difference in diuers writers Some saying that the countrie whence the Turkes first came was Armenia some say Turcomania and some Georgia the truth being that out of one or all these countries they be discended These Turkes are supposed to be the issue of them whome Alexander the great did shut vp within certaine mountaines neare to the Mare Caspium There is this one thing Memorable in Armenia that after the great floud the Arke of Noah did rest it selfe on the mountaines of Armenia whereas Iosephus witnesseth it is to be seene yet to this day The hils wheron it rested are called by some Noe montes The people of this Nation haue retained among them the Christian faith as it is thought from the time of the Apostles but at this day it is spotted with many absurdities On the South parte of Armenia bending towarde the East lieth the countrie of Assyria which is bounded on the West with Mesopotamia This country was that land wherin the first Monarchie war setled which began vnder Ninus which the Scripture calleth Nimrod liuing not long after Noahs floud And it ended in Sardanapalus continuing for the space of a thousand and three hundred yeares The King of this countrie was Senacharib of whom we reade in the booke of Kings and here raigned Nabuchadnezzer who tooke Ierusalem and led the Iewes away prisoners vnto Babylon In this countrie is the swift riuer Tygris neare vnto the which was Paradise vpon this riuer stoode the great cittie Niniuie called by prophane writers Ninus which was almost of incredible bignes and exceeding populous but the nearnesse of the riuer and maruailous fruitfulnes of the soile which Herodotus writeth did returne their corne sometimes two sometimes three hundred folde and did yeelde sufficiencie for to maintaine it This citie for a long time was the imperiall feat of the Monarchie but being destroyed as God foretolde it should be by the Chaldeans the residence of the king was afterwards remoued vnto Babylon a great citie in Chaldea first built by Semiramis De Chaldaea Next vnto Assyria lieth Chaldaea hauing on the East side Assyria on the West Syria or Palestina on the North Armenia on the South the desart of Arabia This countrie is often called by the name of Mesopotamia which name it hath because it lieth in the middle of two great riuers Tygris and Euphrates it is called also by the name of Babilonia which word of it selfe properly taken doth signifie only that part of the countrie which standeth about Babylon The chiefe citie hereof was Babylon the ruines whereof doe remaine to this day It was a rich and most pleasant citie for all kind of delight and was the imperiall citie of the Assyrians where Nabuchadnessar and other their great kings did lie It was to this citie that the children of Israel were caried captiues which thereof was called the captiuitie of Babylon The kings of Persia did also keepe their residence here it was built vpon the riuer Euphrates some part of it standeth on the one side and some on the other hauing so the foundresse Semiramis the wife of Ninus It is supposed by Diuines that in this Mesopotamia between the riuer Tygris Euphrates Paradice did stand this was the country wherin Abraham the Patriarke was borne vnto the which the Romanes could very hardly extend their dominion For they had much to do to get any such gouernment of any thing beyond the riuer Euphrates From this people it is thought that the wise men came which brought presents vnto Christ by the guiding of a starre For as in India and all the Eastern parts so especially in this countrie their Noble men and Priestes and verie manie people doe giue themselues to all Artes of diuination Here were the great Southsayers Enchaunters and wise men as they call them here the first Astrologians which are so descibed and derided in the Scripture and agaynst the inhabitants of Babylon and Chaldaea were the lawes of the Romanes made against deuining Mathematicians who in Tullie de Diuinatione Cornelius Tacitus as also in the lawes of the Emperours are ordinary called by the name of Chaldeans and in deede from these and from the Egytians is supposed to haue sprung the first knowledge of Astronomie De Asia minori ON the North-west side of Mesopotamia lieth that countrie which is now called Nitolia but in times past Asia minor hauing on the North-side Pontus Euxinus on the West the Hellespont and on the South the maine Mare Mediterraneum In the auncient writers both of the Graecians and of the Romanes this is oftentimes called by the single name of Asia because it was best knowne vnto them and they were not so much acquainted with the farther places of Asia the great This countrie in generall for the fruitfulnesse of the land standing in so temperate a Climate and for the conueniencie of the Sea euery way and so many good hauens hath