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A56069	A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross.		1664 (1664)	Wing P3808; ESTC R222509	39,973	58

A PROSPECT OF HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA With a Catalogue of the Kings of the one and the Princes of the other Together with an account of the qualities of the Inhabitants the Commodites of the Countries the chiefest Cities Towns and Strong-holds Rivers and Mountains Whereunto is added An Historical Narration of the bloody Wars amongst themselves and with the Turks continued to this present Year 1664. As also A brief Description of Bohemia Austria Bavaria Steirmark Croatia Dalmatia Moravia Silesia Carinthia Carniola and some other adjacent Countries contained in a Mapp affixed hereunto In which Mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a Crescent or half Moon over them and those in the possession of the Christians have a Cross LONDON Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St Pauls Church-yard near the little North Door 1664. The Description of the Kingdom of Hungary with the History of the late Wars and Changes there HVngary is bounded on the East with Transylvania and Walachia Hungary described On the West with Stiria or Steirmark Austria and Moravia On the North with the Carpathian Mountains which are a long and craggy ledge of Hills beginning near the City of Presburg and the borders of Austria and so pass on in a continuall course till they come to the very Euxine Sea dividing Hungary from Poland and parting Transylvania and Moldovia from Rusianigra and Podolia two Provinces of the Polonian Kingdom and on the South with Sclavonia and some part of Dacia Hungary extendeth in length from Presburg The length breadth of it along the Danow to the borders of Transylvania for the space of three hundred English miles one hundred and ninty of the same miles in breadth The longest Summers Day in the Southern parts is fifteen hours and a half and not above sixteen hours in the Northermost parts The Division of it Hungary is commonly divided into the Upper Hungary and the Lower The Vpper lies on the North of the River Danow out of the bounds and territories of the Roman Empire The Lower lies on the South of the Danow and comprehends all Pannonia Inferior and part of Superior which were formerly two Roman Provinces The Vpper Hungary is subdivided before the coming in of the Turks into thirty two Counties thar is to say twenty four on the West side of Tibiscus or the River Tisse and eight on the East side of the same River The Lower is divided into eighteen Counties of which ten were between the Danow and the River Dravus and the other six between the Danow and the River Savus But this Division and the Subdivisions depending upon it being since the coming in of the Turks almost out of use we will now look upon it as it stands divided for the present or lately did betwixt the Emperor as King of Hungary by a mixt Title of Descent and Election and the Great Turk as Lord of the most part of it by Arms and Conquest two parts of three at least being in his Possession The chief Towns in the Emperors Part. The chief places in the Emperors Part are 1. Sabria anciently the chief City of Pannonia Superior by the Hungarians called Kimarorubath and by the Dutch Leibnits 2. Stridon the Birth-place of St Jerome one of the four chief Fathers of the Latine Church situate in the confines of Hungary and Dalmatia commonly called Strigman 3. Agria a Bishops See 4. Nitri a Bishops See also on the River Boch 5. Sopran on the Borders of Austria 6. Komara a strong piece standing in an Island of the same name made by the Danow 7. Presburg on the edge of Austria on the North side of that River called by the Latines Possonium It 's seated in a pleasant healthful Country on the River Lyet which there falls into the Danow in the Suburbs whereof upon the top of an high Mountain standeth a Stately Castle the ordinary residence of the Emperors as Kings of Hungary For though it be a little City and not very beautiful yet being secured by the neighborhood of Austria it hath been made the Regal City of Hungary since Buda was lost Before the walls hereof died Count Dampier one of the chief Commanders of the Emperor Ferdinand the second in the wars of Hungary and Bohemia 8. Gran called Strigonium which was taken by the Turks Anno Christi 1534 and won again by the Christians 1595 at which time Sr Thomas Arundel of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire Sr Tho. Arundels valour carried himself so gallantly by forcing the Water-Tower and taking thence with his own hands the Turkish Banner His reward that the Emperor Rodulph created him a Count of the Empire and King James afterwards made him Lord Arundel of Wardour It is seated on the Danow but opposite to the mouth of the River Gran which arising in the upper Hungary doth there end its course It s also the seat of an Archbishop who is the Primate of Hungary 9. Raab which stands on the meeting of the Danow with the River Rab coming out of the Lower Hungary it s called in Latine Jaurinum It was heretofore memorable for being the boundary of the two Pannonia's Superior Inferior hereabouts divided Of late its famous for a strong Fortress against the Turks by whom it was taken Anno Christi 1594. but not long after again recovered by the Industry of Monsieur de Vandre Court a French Gentleman 10. Newsol or Newhausel a strong Town in the higher Hungary not far from the Spring-head of the River Gran which in the year 1621. proved fatal to that great Commander the Court of Bucquoy who at the siege hereof the Town being kept by the Hungarians against the Emperor Ferdinand the second lost his Life For going privatly to view some places of advantage whereby to make a general assault he fell into an Ambush of Hungarians who suddenly set upon him discomfitted his small Party killed first his Horse under him and at last himself having in that Skirmish received sixteen wounds Here was also slain with him at the same time Torquato an Italian Prince Count Verdugo a Spanish Earl and one of the Gouragas of the house of Mantua It is lately taken by the Turk 11. Altenbourg 12. Tockay both of them strong by the natural site and 13. Castel-Novo made strong by Art Places of most Importance in the Turks possession The chief Towns in the Turks part are 1. Buda by the Dutch called Hoffen This City is unevenly seated amongst Hills on the South side of the Danow but in the most fruitful part of all the Country It s exceeding strongly fortified and adorned with many fair buildings both private and publick and furnished with some Medicinal Baths which owe much of their pomp and sumptuousness to their New Masters the Turks who took it from the Christians August 20. Anno Christi 1526. Solyman the Magnificent being present at the taking of it Before

Language is most used The soil in Hungary is wonderful fruitful Their commodities yielding Corn and Fruits in great abundance The Grass in some places as in the Isle of Comora exceeds the heigth of a man which doth breed such a number of Cattel that this Country alone is thought to be able to serve all Europe with flesh they yearly send into Germany and Sclavonia eight thousand Oxen. They have Deer Partridge Pheasant in such superfluity that any man that will may kill them The other commodities of the Country are store of Silver Copper Iron Steel Tin Lead Vitrial which they send into divers Countries Yea and Gold which they not onely find in Mines but also in the Sand of some of their Rivers There are also great store of Sheep Stags Fallow Deer Goates Hares wild Boars Wolves Bears and such like beasts Besides Goshawkes and many other Birds There is scarce any other Country that hath more and greater Rivers than Hungary nor more Navigable The Rivers nor better stored with Fish There is the Danow which rising out of Nigra Sylva or the Schwartzen-Wald as the Germans call it at a little Village of Schwaben about two Dutch Miles from the Shoars of the Rhine passeth through Schwaben Bavaria Austria Hungary c. and runs by the Cities of Ulm Regensberg Passaw Vienna Rab Buda c Belgrade beyond which it beginneth to be called Ister and receiving into its channel from the long Tracts of the Alps the Sarmatian and Carpathian Mountains above sixty Navigable Rivers besides lesser Brooks disgorgeth his full stomach out of seven Mouths into the lap of the Euxine Sea the whole length of his course being fifteen hundred Miles Whence a modern Poet said Cedere Danubius se tibi Nile negat O seven-mouth'd Nile I plainly see Danow will scare give place to thee 2. Savus which rising in Carniola falls into Danow 3. Dravus which rises in Carinthia and falls into Danow 4. Tibuscus or the Tisse which rises in Maramufia under the high tops of the Carpathian Mountains and abounds more with Fish than any other of the Rivers of Hungary for they find in it great store of Surgeons Pikes which sometimes have Livers of an Ell long Carps c. whence they use to say that in this River two parts are water and the third Fish There are also many other Rivers wherein are great store of Trouts Salmons Perches Lampries Barbels c. A famous Lake There is also a famous Lake called Balatan by the Dutch Platse which is in length forty Italian Miles but of breadth unequal In some places it s ten Miles broad in others but three The Rarities of Hungary There be also many Medicinal waters and more hot Baths than any one country hath in Europe Some waters their be of a strange nature whereof some falling upon the ground are turned into Stone Others about the Town of Smolnice which falling into Ditches make a kind of mud out of which being tried and melted they make very good Copper and some again which flow in Winter and freeze in Summer And neer unto Bistrice or Mensol there is a Spring or Fountain out of which comes a green Water whereof they make Solder for their Gold This Country also abounds in Mineral Salt at Maromarusia and other places which they cut like unto a stone There are also hot waters whose Fish being taken out and put into cold water dies presently The waters of the County of Liptove neer unto the Village of St John are good against Scabs In the Territory of Zepus there are waters in which Wood is turned into Stone and neer unto St Martins Church in the same place there is a water which seems to boil the which turns into stone both above and under ground and this Stone is almost like unto the Pumeise In the Country of Zolie there is a Gulf or breach in the ground which casts forth such a deadly stink as it kills the Birds that fly over it Neer unto Javerin upon the Banks of the River Danow towards the East are to be seen some remainders of Trajans Bridge Trajans Bridge built upon that River in Moesia an admirable and memorable work consisting of twenty Arches of square stone which Arches were a hundred and fifty foot high besides the foundation and sixty foot broad and each Arch was seventy foot wide It s a thing to be admired by what means force or Art they could build these several Pillars in this deep and violent stream and lay the foundations of so great a burden the bottom of the River being so deep of mud and there being no means to turn the course of the Water he Arches above the Water were demolished by the command of Adrian the Emperor but the Piles stand still for a Testimony ●o Posterity that there was nothing impossible to the power and wealth of the Roman Empire The Principal Mountains of this Country are 1. Carpatus The Mountains the Sarmatian or Carpathian Mountains spoken of before 2. Matzan neer to the City of Agria whereon grow brave Trees in abundance 3. Erdol the highest of all the rest The Christian Faith was first planted here in the time of King Steven surnamed the Saint They receive the Christian Faith being invited and perswaded thereunto by the Emperor Henry the second who upon this condition gave to this Steven in marriage his Sister Gilla and it was effected by the preaching and industry of Albert Arch-Bishop of Prague Anno Christi 1016 or thereabouts Since which time Christianity hath continued here without interruption having been defended gallantly and bravely against the Turks for a long time But now Mahumatism is much spread over a great part of it by reason of those many places which the Turks hold in it As for the Christians some pertinaciously adhere to the Church of Rome Some follow the Doctrine of Luther and some that of Calvin Their Divisions Besides which there are Arians Anabaptists and other Hereticks crept in amongst them Yet all these different parties agree in this to punish Adultery and Fornication with Death The Father forcing his Daughter the Husband his Wife the Brother his Sister to the place of Execution The worthiest Schollar that ever this Kingdom produced was St Jerome The best Scholars and Captains a worthy Father of the Latine Church who was born in Stridon and of later years Steven Kis surnamed Zegedine from the place of his birth and the most worthy of their Souldiers were John Huniades who so valiantly resisted and repelled the incursions of the Turks and slew of them fifty thousand at the Battel of Maxon and after him was Matthias Corvinus his Son King of Hungary of whom a Poet writes thus Patriae decus unica stirpis Gloria Pannonicae caedis fortissimus ult●r His Countries pride the Glory of his Race Revenger of th' Hungarians late disgrace Their Government The King of Hungary Governs