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A28561	A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Barnard, John Augustine, b. 1660 or 61.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3454; ESTC R13938	1,110,589	500

Not much inhabited Casilimar Halys a River of Paphlagonia in Asia the Less This falls into the Euxine Sea 20 Miles West of Amisum now Simiso Cashel Cassilia Cassellia a City of the Province of Munster and County of Tipperary not far from the River Sewer built upon a Hill and made an Archbishops See by Pope Eugenius III. but now meanly Peopled having suffered much from the English It stands 23 Miles North of Waterford In 1650. it was almost wholly burnt down There was a Council held in this City in the year 1171. Casimambous a People of the Isle of Madagascar of the race of those Arabians which the Calif of Mecca dispatched thither about 200 years ago to instruct the Natives in the Arabick Language Casius see Lison a Mountain of Egypt at the foot whereof stood heretofore a Town called Casium famous for the Sepulchre of Pompey and a Temple of Jupiter Castona Castulo a City in the Kingdom of Andaluzia in Spain upon the River Guadalimar which has sometime been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Toledo Famous for the Defeat of the Moors in the year 1202. in the Reign of Alphonsus King of Castile the Christians killing 200000 of them upon the spot near this place The Caspian Sea was named at first the Sea of Chosar from a great Granchild of Noah Nubius in his Geography stiles it the Sea of Thavisthan The Moors call it and the Gulph of Arabia Bohar Corsuin the Persians call both Kulsum the Greek and Latin Writers the Caspian and Hyrcanian Sea the Muscovites Gualenskoy-more The Antients generally thought it a Bay of the Great Indian Ocean or that it had some Communication with the Euxine Sea Though a vast number of Rivers fall into this Sea yet it is not perceived any way to increase It is in length from North to South 120 Miles in breadth 90. Some represent it 800 Miles long and 650 broad In the Winter for the most part frozen It is in effect no other than a great Lake The Waters of it are as salt as any other yet it neither Ebs nor flows nor has any Islands This Sea has the Kingdom of Astracan on the North Persia on the South Circassia on the West and Caratansca on the East Casriae Portae are certain difficult Passes through the Rocks and Mountains near the Caspian Sea in the Province of Schirvan in Persia only large enough for a single Chariot 8000 paces together leading to the Cities of Teflis and Derbent whence they are sometimes called the Gates of Teflis and Derbent amongst the Turks Temir Capi that is the Iron Gate see Derbent § The Caspian Mountains are a Chain of Mountains extended from North to South in Asia betwixt Armenia and the Caspian Sea § The Caspii were an antient People amongst the Scythians upon the Borders of the same Sea Cassandt a small Island upon the Coast of Flanders over against l' Ecluse with a Village in it and a Fortress under the Hollanders Cassano a City in the Hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cosenza with the Title of a Principality situate near a small River called Lione § Also a great Town in the Milanese upon the River Adda between Crema and Bergamo Cassel a City in the Marquisate of Hessen upon the River Fuld which is well fortified It stands 13 German Miles from Marpurg in the Confines of the Dukedom of Brunswick the usual Residence of the Landgraves of Hessen antiently called Castellum Cattorum It is a large City well built and fortified and the Capital of the said Landgravate § Cassel or Mont-Cassel Castellum Morinorum a small Town in Flanders 4 Leagues from Bergue S. Vinoch and at an equal distance from Aire in a good Soil and well fortified with a considerable Jurisdiction belonging to it It has been taken and retaken upon divers Occasions but most memorable for the Battle here fought Apr. 11. 1677. betwixt the French commanded by the Duke of Orleans and the Dutch and Spanish Armies commanded by the Prince of Orange who proposing to relieve S. Omers then besieged by the Duke was repulsed in this Battel so that the Town yielded to the French within a few days after Cassemir or Chismeer a Province of the Empire of the Great Mogul in the hither East-Indies towards Tartary Casseneuil a small Town in the County of Agenois in Guyenne in France upon the River Lot 5 Leagues from Agen. Formerly adorn'd with a Palace Royal in which the Emperor Charles the Great took particular Delight and Lewis the Debonnaire his Son was bornin 778. Casseuil a Town upon the Garonne in the Diocese of Bazas in Guyenne in France Heretofore adorn'd with a Palace-Royal which disputes the Honor of being the Birth-Place of Lewis the Debonnaire with the precedent Casseneuil Cassian or Caschan a large handsome populous and trading City in the Province of Hyerach in Persia in a Plain 3 Days journey from Hispahan in the Way to the Caspian Sea only it wants good Water and the people are infested with Scorpions Cassin or Mont-Cassin a celebrated Abbey in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples built by S. Benedict the Patriarch of the Occidental Monks and inhabited by him There was heretofore a City of the same Name at the Foot of the Hill upon which this Abbey stands It was an Episcopal See under the Pope but falling into Ruines the See became united with that of S. Germain a City that has sprung out of those Ruines of Cassin Cassiopeia an antient City and Territory in the Kingdom of Epirus in Greece upon the Frontiers of Macedonia It has had the Honor of an Episcopal See and is a different Place from the Cassiope of Pliny and Ptolemy which stands to the Sea in the same Kingdom and is now called Joannina Cassiterides the antient Name of two Islands upon the Northern Coast of Galaecia in Spain given them by the Greeks from the White Lead they found in them Now call'd Zigarga and S. Cyprian They lie opposite to the Cap d'Orteguere Cassopo a Town in the North of the Island of Corfou heretofore called Cassiopeia and famous for a Temple dedicated to Jupiter It is now nothing more than a ruin'd Fortress besides a Church under the Care of some religious Greeks where they have a Figure of the B. Virgin that is famed for doing of Miracles Cassovia Vide supra Caschaw This City was granted to Bethlehem Gabor by Ferdinand II. in 1620. Cassubia or Cassuben a Dutchy in the Province of Pomerania in Germany under the Elector of Brandenburg between the Baltick Sea Prussia and Stetin Colberg is one of its Principal Towns Castabala Perasia an antient City of Cilicia in Asia Minor upon the Confines of Syria and the Gulph of Lajazzo between Anazarbe and Adana Diana had formerly a famous Temple in her Honor here Castalius a Fountain of Phocis in Greece dedicated by the antient Poets to Apollo

of Portugal upon the River Zadaon Alcyone an antient City of Thessalia § Also the Name of a deep Lake in the Morea near Corinth where there was in antient times a Temple dedicated to Amphiaraus which gave this Lake the Name of Fons Amphiarai Aldebourg a Village in Flanders Aldeburgh Isurium a small Corporation in the County of Suffolk situated upon the Sea Shoar which sends two Burgesses to Parliament Aldego Aldegus a River in the Province of Verona in Italy which unites with the Adige in the States of Venice Aldenburg Brannesia a ruined City in Holstein 8 Miles from Lubeck which robb'd it of its Bishoprick in 970. This is by some call'd Olden-borch It is but 2 Miles from the Baltick Sea there is now nothing but a Castle left Aldenburg a Town of Misnia in Germany upon the River Pleiss which heretofore was a free Imperial City but in 1308. was taken by Frederick Marquess of Misnia and united to Misnia In the Castle of this Town was the antient Residence of the Dukes of Saxony It is 6 German Miles distant from Lipsi●k to the South and 8 from Misnia to the West Some call it Altenburg Aldernay an Island on the Coast of Normandy Ale the Name of a Kingdom in Africa belonging to the Barbeci Alegransa a small Island with a convenient Haven and Castle near the Canaries Alentejo or Entre Tejo Guadiana a Province in Portugal South-East of Estremadura divided into 5 Counties the chief City of which is Evora A part of old Lusitania and Boetica Alenzon Alenconium a large and well built City in Normandy adorned with the Title of a Dutchy it stands upon the River Sarte This Title has been carried by Eight of the Royal Family of Valois and has since been conferr'd occasionally on many of the younger Princes of the Royal Family of France It is 42 Miles from Paris Aleppo Berrhoea Beroa is a City of Syria seated upon the River Marsya which falls into Euphrates at this day the greatest City of Syria a Mart filled with innumerable Inhabitants and European Merchants being 6 Miles in compass with 3 Suburbs 10 Gates and an oblong Castle which is very strong It is the Seat and Government of a Bassa 28 Leagues distant from Scanderoon towards the Euphrates and 200 Miles Northward from Damascus the English French and Venetians have each of them a Consul here Long. 58. 20. Lat. 31. 25. Alexia an antient City and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Pisa in the Island of Corsica now ruin'd § A River of the same Name runs thereby which is supposed to be the Rhotanus of Ptolomy Alesa an antient City of Sicily with a River by it of the same Name now call'd Pittineo Alesham or Aylesham a Market Town in Norfolk in the Hundred of South-Erpingham Alessio Lyssus a City of Albania near the falling of the River Drin into the Adriatique also a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Durazzo famous for the Sepulchre of the great Scanderberg who died here in 1467. Alessio Alex a River of Calabria in Italy which falls into the Bay of Tarento Alet Alecta a City of Languedoc in France and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Narbone out of which Diocess it was taken by Pope John XXII It is 5 Leagues from Carcassone and stands at the foot of the Pyrenean Hills Alexandretta See Scanderone Alexandria a City of Egypt call'd by the Turks Scanderik a celebrated Mart and the Seat of the second Patriarch built by Alexander the Great Anno Mundi 3618. that is 330 years before Christ It was considered much more than now before the building of Grand Cairo Heretofore the great Trade for Spices was driven here which were brought by Camels from the Red Sea but are now brought to us by Sea from the East Indies Yet this Town is still much frequented by the European Ships for the sake of the Harbour It is inhabited by about 2000 Souls which being too few for so vast a City accordingly much of it is nothing but Ruins The Pharoal once an Isle is now joyned to the City and a Fort built upon it by the Turks with a Garison for the security of the Port. This City was taken from the Christians by Amrus the Moor after a Siege of 13 Months retaken from them in the times of the Holy War Anno Christi 1167. but it fell soon after into their hands again Long. 58. 20. Lat. 31. 25. § There is another City of this Name built by Alexander M. beyond the River Tanais § A third in the Palatinate of Lusuc in Poland upon the River Horin § And a fourth in Susiana in Asia Alexandria Alexandrinum a small Town in the Palatinate of Braclaw in Poland Alexandria della Paglia Alexandria Statelliorum a large and well fortified City in the Dukedom of Milan in Italy built upon the River Tanaro which divides it It was made a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan by Pope Alexander III. Anno 1175. from whom it had its Name It is 52 Miles from Milan to the North-West and 12 from Casal to the South This City in 1656. being besieged by the Prince of Conti and the Duke of Modena their Army was forced to rise for want of Money Brietius Long. 30. 30. Lat. 43. 54. Alexie See Alize Alfissah a Country in the Southern part of the Isle of Madagascar Aleford a Market-Town in Lincolnshire in the Division of Lindsey and Hundred of Calceworth Alfreton a Market-Town in Darbyshire in the Hundred of Scarsdale Algarria a Northern Province of the Kingdom of New Castile whose Bounds are not known so that it is thought that both Madrid and Toledo are in this Province Algarve a small part of Spain which under Alphonsus III. was added to Portugal with the Title of a Kingdom Tavira is the chief place in it it hath Portugal on the North on the West and South it is washed by the Ocean and on the East lies Andaluzia Algezire a Town and Port upon the Streights of Gibraltar in Spain supposed by some to be the Cartheia of the Antients Taken from the Moors by Alphonsus XI King of Castile in 1344. now ruin'd Algiers or Argiers Julia Caesarea aliis Ruscurum Rusucurum a City and Republick in Africa upon the Confines of Barbary on the Mediterranean Sea famous for Piracies and for the loss of a vast Fleet of Ships by a Tempest belonging to Charles V. in 1541. when that Victorious Prince attempted the Conquest of this place The English have had better success against them twice entred their strong Harbours and burnt their Ships First under Admiral Blake April 4. 1655. And afterwards having been forced to a Peace in 1668. by Sir Thomas Allen which they broke the year following in 1670. Capt. Beach meeting 7 of their Men of War forced them on shoar two of which they burnt themselves and the English the other five releasing 250 Christian Captives In 1670. Sir Edward Sprague destroy'd 9 more of

de Dier Santo Xanthus a City and River in Phrygia in the Lesser Asia it ariseth from Mount Ida and washing the famous City of Troy falls into the Archipelago Called also by the Europeans Il Scamandro as it was Scamander by the Ancients Sanctors the same with Santerre ●ahia de ●o●●s los Santos Sinus omnium Sanctorum a Gulph in Brasil in South America which gives name to a Government or Province there called Capitania de la bahia de todos los Sants betwixt the Province of the Isles Capitania dos Ilheos and that of Seregippe del Roy. The Capital of All Saints is S. Salvador under the Portugueze Santuliet or Sanflit Sanflita a small but strong Town in Brabant upon the Schelde between Antwerp to the South and Bergen op Zoome to the North three Leagues Soane Savo a small River in Campania di Roma in Italy which flowing through the Terra di Lavoro a Province of the Kingdom of Naples falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Sinuessa a ruined City and Volturno Saosne or Saone Arar Savona Sangona a great River in France called by the Italians Sona it ariseth out of Mount Vauge in Lorain near Dornay about twelve Miles from the Fountains of the Moselle to the North-West or as Baudrand saith within five and running Southward through the upper part of Franché Comté it watereth Gray and beneath it takes in the Loughon a great River from the East So it passeth by Auxone to Verdun above which the Doule a great River comes in from the East So passing by Challon Tornus Mascon and Ville Franche it entreth and divideth the City of Lyons and soon after falls into the Rhosne which conveys it into the Mediterranean Sea Some derive its Latin Name Sangona from the Blood of the Christians colouring its Waters at Lyons in the Massacre that was committed upon them there in the Reign of Marcus Aurelius the Emperour Sapienza an Island over against the City Modon in the Morea which gives the name of the Sea of Sapienza to that part of the Mediterranean which watereth its Coasts It was anciently called Spagia or Sphragia The Corsaires of Barbary lye in Ambuscade behind this Island for Vessels that come from the Gulph of Venice or the Coast of Sicily Sara a City of Armenia Major and another of Illyricum remembred in the ancient Geographies Sarabat Hermus a River of the Lesser Asia which ariseth in the Greater Phrygia and receiving the Rivers anciently called Crya Hillus and Pactolus falls into the Bay of Smyrna The Saracens Some deriving the original of this people from Hagar and Ismael call them Hagarenes and Ismaelites Others make them to be descended from Cham and that they were the Inhabitants of the ancient Saraca in Arabia mentioned by Ptolemy and of the Country whereof that City was the Capital It is certain they were an Arabian people and withal that their Name in Arabick signifies Robbers according to the common practice of their lives which they first began to discover in the fifth Century Attaining in the course of time to such an universal puissance as to over-run Syria Persia Palestine Egypt part of Sicily Italy France and most of the Islands of the Mediterranean under Kings of their own and to withstand the united Forces of Christendom in the eleventh and twelfth Ages till the Turks the Caliphs of Egypt and the Sophyes of Persia breaking severally into their Estates the very name of Saracen became abolished only as it is sometimes now applied to Mahometans because the Saracens were Mahometans Saragora Cesar Augusta Vrbs Edetanorum Salduba the Capital City of the Kingdom of Aragon in Spain called by the Inhabitants Zaragosa by the Italians Saragoza It is an Archbishops See of the Creation of Pope John XXII the Seat of the Courts of Justice for that Kingdom of an Inquisition and an University It stands upon the River Ebro which is here covered with a Bridge a little above the Confluence of the Guerva and beneath that of the Xaleon Nonius might justly say of it If the fertility of the Soil the pleasantness of its Site the beauty and elegance of the Buildings of this City be duely considered there can nothing be desired towards the improvement of it which is wanting The Houses are for the most part of Brick the Streets large and open so that for use and beauty it is equal to the best City in Spain It has a strong Wall four Gates a great number of Towers one Cittadel seventeen great Churches fourteen Monasteries and about three Miles in Circuit the Air is very clear and healthful but inclining to too much heat It is a City of great Antiquity having been a Roman Colony and in those times one of the principal Cities in Spain In 381. there was a Council celebrated here in which Priscillianus was condemned who had a great number of followers in Spain There were also other Councils held here in 516. 592. and 691. Prudentius one of the ancientest Christian Latin Poets was a Native of this place who flourished in the fourth Century This City was recovered out of the hands of the Moors in 1118. The Archbishops See was renewed in 1318. It stands forty two Spanish Miles from Valencia to the North twenty six from Pampelune and thirty eight from the Shoars of the Mediterranean Long. 20. 10. Lat. 42. 30. Saragossa See Syracusa Sarbruck or Sarbrucken Sarrae Pons a Town of Germany upon the River Sar in the Borders of the Dukedom of Lorain over against S. Jean Three German Miles from Deux-Pontz and nine from Metz to the East Heretofore an Imperial and Free City of Germany but fell afterwards under the Duke of Lorain and now in the hands of the French although not great yet it is a fine Town of great antiquity being mentioned by Antoninus in his Itinerary Sarcelle Rusicibar an ancient Town of Mauritania Caesariensis mentioned by Ptolemy and Antoninus and now in the Kingdom of Argier in Barbary Twenty eight Miles from the Capital of that Kingdom to the West It is a considerable Town has a large Haven on the Mediterranean Sea and a Castle Sarch Assyria a Province of Asia under the Turks See Assyria Sardinia Sandalioris Ichnusa a great Island in the Mediterranean Sea called by the Inhabitants Sardenna by the Spaniards Sardegna and by other Nations Sardinia In length from North to South one hundred and seventy Miles in breadth from East to West ninety in circuit five hundred It has eleven Harbours ninety four Watch-Towers to preserve it from the Turkish Pirats and in the Roman times it had forty two Cities in the former Ages of Christianity eighteen Episcopal ones which are now reduced to eight The first Nation that became Masters of it were the Carthaginians from whom it was taken by the Romans in the first Punick War about the year of Rome 493. two hundred fifty seven years before the Birth of our Saviour In the Fall of the Roman