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city_n	barony_n	chief_a	people_v	30	3	16.7928	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50651	A geographical description of the world with a brief account of the several empires, dominions, and parts thereof : as also the natures of the people, the customs, manners, and commodities of the several countreys : with a description of the principal cities in each dominion : together with a short direction for travellers.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1671 (1671)	Wing M1790; ESTC R32424	97,458	377

seem to be of great antiquity 2. Alexandria 3. Cremona The form of this City is like unto a Cardinal's Hat with broad brims seated in a plain Within this City is a Tower built of Brick which requires 492 stairs in the Ascent 4. Millain This City is of a round form and hath 9 Gates the Building shews antiquity and the Houses are of Brick and low built excepting some stately Palaces The Streets are broad and the Pavement of Brick raised in the midst with broad stones In this City is thought to be inhabited 200000 souls of the best Artizans in Italy The Dukedom of Mantua THe Dukedom of Mantua hath on the East Romagna West Millain North Trevigiana and South Parma and Placentia The chief Cities are 1. Mirabella 2. Modena 3. Lucera and 4. Mantua a very strong Town being invironed on three sides with a Water being a quarter of a mile broad The form of this City is round save that the foresaid Lake on the North and East-sides enters into the City in form of a half Moon The Buildings are partly of Brick and partly of free-stone and the Streets are large and clean In the midst of this City is a large Market-place wherein the Jewes have there and sell all manner of Wares for all traffick is in their hands growing rich by the poverty of the Citizens It is unlawfull to wear a sword without licence of the Magistrate either at Millain Cremona or Mantua or almost in any other City of Italy only at Venice and Padua and the Cities of that State strangers may wear swords and only the wearing of Pistols or short Guns is forbidden The Dukedom of Vrbin THe Dukedom of Vrbin lyeth in the midst of the Papal Territories having on the North the Adriatick on the South the Apenine on the West Romagna on the East Marca Aconitana The length of it is 60 the breadth 35 miles Here are in this Dukedom 200 Castles and 7 Towns the chief of the seven being Vrbin seated on the bottom of the Apenine and built in the fashion of a Miter 2. Pisauro a good Haven 3. Belforto seated in the Mid-land The chief of the Castles are the Rock of St. Leo and Marivola The Principality of Parma THis Principate hath on the North Mantua and on the South the Apenine on the West Millain and on the East the Countrey of Modena The City of Parma is seated on the River Pirnia Placentia is seated on the Po. To this Principate belongeth Mirandula with her territories The State of Genoa THe State of Genoa was once very great but now they have nothing left but Liguria and Corsica Liguria hath on the East the River Varus West the River Magra by which it is parted from Tuscany North the Apenine and South the Ligurian or Tyrhene Seas The chief Towns are 1. Noli 2. Sarazena 3. Savona And 4. Genoa This City is seated upon the sides of Mountains declining from the highest Mountain on the West-side toward the East and to the Sea-side On the South side is the outward Haven in form of an half Moon upon the horn thereof towards the East lyes the Sea-bank called Lamola about 600 paces long which keepeth off the waves of the Sea that beat upon the City On the East-side and in the midst of this Bank is a Fort built to defend the Navy The whole circuit of this City is said to be 8 miles The streets are narrow but the Palaces are stately built of Marble and the Houses of free-stone 5 or 6 stories high and the Windows are glazed which is rare in Italy the streets are paved with flint and the Houses of the suburbs are almost as fair as within the City The State of Lucca THe State of Lucca is situate in Tuscany and comprehendeth the Territory and Town of Lucca This Town is seated in a plain and strongly fortified and compassed with Mountains on all sides but some what distant and only lyes open on the Sea-side towards Pistoia being 3 miles in compass The streets are narrow and paved with broad free-stone most easie to be walked on The Palaces of the chief Gentlemen are built of free-stone but with a low roof after the Italian fashion and they have many pleasant Gardens within the Walls Within this City no Man may wear any weapon no not a Knife except the point be blunt Thus much of Italy Netherland ON the North-west of Italy lyeth Germany which is divided into the higher and the lower this latter is called Netherland It is bounded on the East with Ems and part of Germany on the West with the German Sea on the North with East Friezeland and on the South with the Some Champaigne and Lorrain The situation The Air of this Countrey is very intemperate the winter-cold being excessive and the summers-heat far exceeding the ordinary heat of that Clime Natures of the people The Men for the most part are well proportioned much given to our English Beer being excessive in their drinking so that you shall hardly find a Dutch-man sober in an afternoon The Women generally are of a good complexion well proportioned especially in their leg and foot honourers of virtue active and familiar both within doors and without they govern all Diet. In their Diet Butter is the first and last dish at the table whereof they make all sauces as well your Men as Women passing from City to City to trade carry with them Cheese and Boxes of Butter for their food They use no Spits here but see the little pieces of flesh with Roots and Gobbets of fat mingled without any curiosity or else bake them in earthen Pipkins Fertility They have abundance of Butter Cheese and Roots for Corn they have not sufficient for their own use yet by traffick at Dantzick they furnish themselves and many other Nations therewith They have little plenty of River fish but Sea fishes salted and dryed they make great traffick therewith There is great abundance of Sea-fowl and they want not Land-fowl Commodity The Commodities in which they most abound are Tapistries Sayes Searges Worsteds Frigadoes and divers sorts of linnen Cloth with abundance of other small trifles This Countrey is divided into seventeen Provinces viz. Into 4 Dukedoms 1. Limburg 2. Luxenburg 3. Gelderland 4. Brabant 1 Marquisate Of the Holy Empire 7 Earldoms 1. Flanders 2. Artoys 3. Hainault 4. Namurre 5. Zutphen 6. Holland 7. Zealand 5 Baronies 1. West-Friezl 2. Vtretch 3. Overysell 4. Machlyn 5. Groyning Limburg THe Dukedom of Limburg hath Mastrich for the chief City and the Bishoprick of Leige pertains to it wherein the City of Leige is the Bishops Seat This City is seated on the Meuse The Buildings of this Town are very fair especially the Monasteries and Abbeys This Bishoprick comprehends in it 24 walled Towns and 1800 Villages Also the Eastern part which is properly call'd the Dukedom of Limburg contains in it 5 Towns and 23 Villages The chief

heat In the Winter season there is abundance of all things necessary chiefly of Fruits and Flowers In the Town also is some Moschees and Synagogues of Jews Media MEdia is limited on the North with the Mountain Taurus on the South with Parthia East with Aria or Sablestam and West with Armenia minor Fertility This Countrey is generally barren especially in the Northern parts so that they make their Bread for the most part of dryed Almonds their Drink of the Roots of certain Herbs and feed ordinarily on Venison The great Cities of Media are Casbeene Tabris or Taurus Ordavill Tyroan Cashan and Coom. Tyroan is situate in the midst of a fair large Plain which although on some parts is environed with Hills of stupendious height yet some wayes it affords an ample Horizon The building is of Sun-burnt brick and it is watered with a small Stream which runs in two parts through the Town and mellows most of the Gardens and Groves within it The Town is most beautified with a vast Garden of the Kings succinct with a large to wred Mud-wall larger than the circuit of the City The Houses are open at the tops whereon are spread Carpets where each Man sleeps Carpets where each Man sleeps with his Seraglio some have three some six and some twelve sleeping by them It containeth some 3000 Houses and hath in her a Caravans Lodge which exceeds her Mosque Tauris or Ecbatana derives her Name from the Mountain Taurus and is now a City both great and famous her circuit is six miles it is placed by a River and is shaded by the Hill Baretano and to the South sheweth a large Plain 't is well peopled and much resorted to for traffick which makes it famous throughout all Asia it hath a small Mud-wall of little service the Houses are flat above and built of Brick dryed in the Sun her best ornament is a Garden built toward the South-East planted by Shaw Tamas Cazbeene was of old called Arsatia this City is situate in a fair even place no Hills being near it The compass of this City is seven miles her Buzzar is large and pleasant the Kings House and Seraglio are near the Market built of raw Bricks but painted and varnished very rarely with blew red and yellow the Mosques and Hummums are very resplendant with the Azure paint wherewith they are ceruleated for their other Buildings they are of no great magnificence Coom is a pleasant City standing in the half-way betwixt Cazbeen and Spahawn and in front of both 'T is a pleasant fruitfull and healthy City and the People courteous it hath in her 2000 Houses well built sweet and well furnished her Streets are wide her Buzzar fair and her Mosque of most honourable esteem among them It is watered with a sweet but small River and hath plenty of all Fruits Parthia PArthia is bounded on the East with Aria West with Media North with Hircania and South with Carmania The chief City is Spahawn it being the Imperial City it is situate in a fair and pleasant Horizon 't is by some called Hispaan It is a City both great antient and famous it is of an Orbicular form and is some nine miles in compass her Inhabitants some 300000 Souls The chief Ornaments of this City are the Mydan or great Market the Hummums or Hot-Houses the Moschees the Kings Palace and Gardens The Mydan is in the heart of the City and to say truth all the beauty concourse wealth and trade is comprised in her It is built in form of Royal Exchange with four Isles and Court within called the Hypodromo It is stored with all Merchandizes chiefly Drugs and to this place daily resort most Nations as English Dutch Portugall Arabians Turks Jews Armenians Muscovians and Indians there are many great Surroyes where are Houses made of purpose for laying in and keeping Merchants Goods and to harbour and lodge themselves and their Camels Horses and other Cattel Within this Mydan is nothing sold but things of great value as Cloth of Gold Silver and Tissue Sattins Velvets Jewels and Pearls In one end are nothing but raw Silks in another end are twisted and wrought Silks and in another those that sell all sorts of Apparel ready made after the Persian fashion very rich as Sutes of Cloth of Gold Silver and the like The buildings of their Mosques or Churches are large and handsom In this City is a Column compact of several Heads of Men and Beasts 't is at the base above 20 foot in compass and the height is three times as much Cashan is also a famous City in Parthia the antiquity of it is not much in this name It is well seated well peopled and well built the people are orderly and more given to Trade than in some Towns about her Silks Sattins Cloth of Gold are here in abundance at reasonable prizes The Caravans-Raw the Mosque and Hummums are her only Ornaments of which the Caravans-Raw exceeds any in Persia It was built by Abbas for Travellers to lodge in upon free-cost by act of Charity This City is distant from Spahawn some nine miles Divers other Cities there are but of less note Thus much of Parthia and of the Persian Kings Dominion Tartaria TArtaria is bounded on the East with the Eastern Ocean on the West with the Muscovy on the North with the Frozen Sea and on the South with Mare Caspium the Hill Taurus and the Wall of China It extendeth it self from East to West 5400 miles and from North to South 3600. It was of old known by the name of Scythia Natures and Manners of the People They are generally of a swarthy complexion square stature broad faces hollow-ey'd thin beards and ugly countenances barbarous in behaviour especially in Antiqua Asciatica for their Religion some are Pagans and some Mahumetans They are given to Divinations Auguries Sooth-sayings Inchantments and when they receive answer from the Devil they attribute the same to God whom they call Stoga they marvelously fear and reverence him offering him many oblations The Women are suitable to the Men wanting and scorning Money adorning themselves with Gew-gaws of Copper Feathers and Latton Division It is now usually divided into the Provinces of Precopensis Asciatica Antiqua Zagathay and Cathaia Procopenfis or Tartaria minor It containeth all Taurica Chersonesus and the Asciatican Banks of Tanais The chief Cities are 1. Precops 2. Crim the ancient Seat of the Tartarian Rulers 3. Ozaclow the residence of the present Princes 4. Capha anciently Theodosia a Town of great traffick Asciatica or Deserta Asciatica or Deserta This call'd also Moscovitica Deserta as anciently Sarmatia Asciatica is situate about the Banks of the River Volga The People here for the most part live in Tents made of Beasts skins and account it a great misery to stay longer in one place than the pasture affords meat for their Cattle They sowe no Corn but make Horse-flesh their chief food