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death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

which it sprung A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Regio from which it lies twenty seven Miles to the North-East Giera-petra Hiera-petra Hyerpytna a City of Candia or Creet which has a Castle and an Haven such as it is and heretofore a Bishops See it lies on the South side of the Island in the Territory of Sitia near Mount Malaura sixteen Miles from Setia to the West now under the Dominion of the Turks Giessen Giessa a small but very strong City in Hassia in Germany upon the River Lhone four Leagues from Marpurg to the South It was of late years made an University and is the strongest Town in this Province under the Landtgrave of Darmstadt in part and of Cassel in part Giffhorn a Town in the Dutchy of Lunenburg in the Lower Saxony upon the River Allere three or four Leagues from Brusnwick and a little more from Zell Gigel Gigeri Gigari Igiti a City of Africa heretofore a Bishops See but now a small Village in the Province of Bugia in the Kingdom of Algier twenty seven Miles from Algier to the East upon the Shoars of the Mediterranean Taken by the French in 1664. and afterwards deserted There was another City which Ptolemy calls Colops and placeth in the Province of Zeugitania which is now called Giger Giglio Igilium Iginium Egilium a small Mountainous Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea which has in it one Village and a Castle and belonged heretofore to the Republick of Sienna with which it came into the hands of the Duke of Tuscany It lies about a Mile from the nearest Coast of Italy between 34. and 35. deg of Long. in Lat. 41. 55. Gihon one of the four Rivers springing from the Paradise of Adam and Eve Gen. 2. 13. Josephus makes it the same with the Nile others with the Araxes See Nilus Gilan Gelae Gilania a Province of Persia upon the South side of the Caspian Sea which from it is often called the Sea of Gilan The chief City of this Province is Gilan and stands upon the River Abisirni twenty five German Miles from the Caspian Sea in Long. 90. 13. and Lat. 40. Gilboa a Chain of Mountains in the Holy Land extended the length of ten or twelve Leagues from the City Jezrael to Jordan along the Tribe of Issachar and the Vpper Galilee Famous in the Jewish History for the encampment defeat and death of King Saul and his three Sons here in a Battel with the Philistines and for David's cursing these Mountains with Barrenness for Jonathan's sake They are almost all covered with Stones Taking their Name some suppose from an ancient City Gilboa As at this time we are told of a considerable Town called Gilbus standing amongst them Gilead The Mount properly in the Region of Trachonitis in Palestine whereat Jacob and Laban passed a Covenant with each other Gen. 31. But afterwards extended to express the Cities and Country adjacent which were given by Moses to the Tribe of Gad Josh 13. 25. Gillesland a Tract in the North parts of the County of Cumberland from whence the Earl of Carlisle receives the title of Baron Dacre of Gillesland Gilolo an Island in the East Indian Ocean to the west of the Moluccaes and East of the Terra des Papaous in 165. deg of Long. It has four Points of Land shooting forth into the Sea as many different ways One about twenty another fifty Leagues Long. The Capital of it is called Gilolo also Gindes a River springing from the Martian Mountains of Armenia and ending in the Tigris In which course it retarding the passage of Cyrus's Army to the Siege of Babylon he broke it into three hundred and sixty Channels Gingi Gingis a great City in the Promontory of Malabar in the East-Indies which gives Name to a Province This City was heretofore under the King of Bisnagar but has now a Prince of its own it is very strong and has a Castle built upon a Rock The Province or Kingdom of Gingi has Bisnagar to the North the Gulph of Bengala on the East the Mountains of Malabar on the West and the Kingdom of Tanjaour to the South Gingiro a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia towards Melincle Zanguebar and the Eastern Ocean Ginopoli Gemanopolis Jonopolis a City of Paphligonia which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Gangra It lies upon the Black Sea ten German Miles West of Carambis the most Northern Cape of the Lesser Asia Giordano Jordan Giorgiana Georgia Giovenazzo Juvenacium a Maritim City of Apulia Pucetia now Terra di Lavoro upon the Gulph of Venice between Bari to the North and Trani to the South welve Miles from the first and a little morefrom the latter In Long. 40. 50. Lat. 41. 12. This is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari It stands upon an Hill and is almost incompassed with the Sea Giovenco Juvencus Invectus a River of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples which falls into the Lake of Celano at the foot of the Appennine forty five Miles West of Rome in the Province of Abruzzo Heretofore it passed through the Lake without mixing with it but whether it passeth into any other River or is swallowed up by the subterraneous passages which carry away the waters of that Lake Leandro has not informed us Gir a River of Africa which rising in Biledulgerida not far from the Atlantick Ocean runs Eastward and passing under several Chains of Hills and Mountains at last falls into Nile above the Cataracts of Egypt It is a vast and wonderful River in all things and deserves a more particular description if the Counties through which it passes were so known to us as to enable us to give it Girgia See Hyrach Girigo Girgium a City of the Vpper Egypt near the Nile the Capital of a Province which takes its Name from this City betwixt Barbanda and the Sahid Otherwise written Girgilo Girmasti Caicus a River of the Lesser Asia which rising by a City of the same Name washeth Judai Pergama Caristo and Stinga then falls into the Archipelago over against the Isle of Metellino The City of Girmasti was of Old called Hierogerma and is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Cyzioeno called only Germa in the Councils being attributed by some to Mysia Minor by others to Phrygia Minor it lies between Balichstria to the East and Pergama to the West Giro or Palmacia Venaria a small Island on the Eastern Coasts of Genoua Girona Gerunda a City of Catalonia in Spain built by Gerion a celebrated Hero who is said to have lived Anno Mundi 2840. and to have been Contemporary with Hely the Judge of Israel It is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Tarragona of a large extent seated partly upon the descent of a Hill partly upon a Plain ennobled with two Bridges one in the City over the River Oingar and the other without the City on the North side over the River Ter and besides is very well fortified and honoured with the

a Market Town in the County of Suffolk in the Hundred of Risbridg not far from the head of the River Stower Havessen Cimmeriorum Populi a Province in Georgia upon the Caspian Sea as Ortelius conjectures from the Description of Haiton the Armenian But not being called by this Name by our later Travellers it can be no further described here Havre de Grace Portus Gratiae a strong Sea-Port Town in Normandy in France which has a well fortified Castle and an excellent Haven Seated at the Mouth of the Seyne in the Païs de Caux eighteen Leagues beneath Roan to the West fifteen from Caudebec and almost twenty from Dieppe to the South upon the Shoars of the British Seas over against Shorham in Sussex This Town was in 1563. put into the hands of Q. Elizabeth by the Protestants of France then ingaged in War against their King as a Cautionary Place a Peace was soon after concluded without any regard taken of that Princess or her Interest by those she succoured And not contented with this both Parties joyning against the English then commanded by the Earl of Warwick besieged the Town which being surrounded with Enemies without and wasted by the Plague within was forced in a short time to surrender to the French It is now one of the Keys of that Kingdom Haut-Combe a Village in the Principality of Savoy one League distant from Bellay where there is an Abbey of Cistercians and a remarkable Fountain which twice in an hour ebbs and flows Haut-Riue Alta-Ripa a Town in Languedoc upon the River Auriege Alburacis which ariseth in de Foix from the Pyrenean Hills and falls into the Guaronne four Miles from Tolouse to the South Haux Halla See Hall in Hainault Hawkeshead a Market Town in Lancashire and the Hundred of Loynsdale in a hilly and wooddy Country Hay a Market Town in the County of Brecknock in Wales in the Hundred of Talgarth La Haye Haga Com. See Hague Haye du Routol Haga Brotona a Village in the Forest of Routal in France La Haye en Touraine Haga Turonica a Town in Touraine upon the River Crausia Creuse ten Leagues from Tours to the South in the Confines of Poictou three Miles from Noyers to the East where the Creuse falls into the Vienne This Town gave Birth to des Cartes the famous modern Philosopher who died at Stockholm in Sweden in 1650. And it is besides remark'd with the Title of a Barony Hay●sham A Market Town in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Bulmer Haynan or Hainan an Island upon the Coast of the Province of Quangtung in China abounding with fine Woods Forests and Fruits and Mines of Gold and Silver It s capital City is Kiuncheu which with twelve other Cities lying upon the Sea Coast belongs to the Emperor of China whilst the inland parts remain under the possession of the Natives Upon the Northern Coast of this Island they find much Pearl Hayne See Haisne Haynburgh by corruption Hamburgh Comagenum a small Town in the Lower Austria on the Confines of Hungary upon the Danube six German Miles from Vienna to the East and three from Presburg West near which are the Mountains of K●●nberg called heretofore Comagenus Mons. This Town is remarkable for nothing but its Antiquity having been a Roman Town Hea a Province of the Kingdom of Morocco in Barbary bounded by the River Ecifelmeli to the East the Mountain Atlas to the South and the Ocean to the North and West Headon or Heydon an antient Borough Town in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Holderness upon a small River near its fall into the Humber and a few Miles East of Hull whose rise has occasioned the decay of this place It has the Election of two Parliament Men. Hebal or Ebal a Mountain of Palestine in the Tribe of Ephraim from whence Joshua pronounced a multitude of Curses upon the Violaters of the Jewish Law Some make it to be but a part of Mount Gerizim Hebrides the same with the Ebudae Hebron an antient and famous City of the Holy Land in the Tribe of Juda near to which the Patriarch Abraham did abide It was the Capital of the Country of the Philistines and afterwards taken by Joshua and given to Caleb his General David retiring to it after the death of Saul came to be elected King here and made it his residence seven years till the taking of Jerusalem It had the honour to be advanced to an Episcopal See when Christianity was re-established in Palestine but now almost ruined Hecatompylis a Name antiently given to the Cities Thebes Haspaam c. from their having 100 Gates Hec●a a burning Mountain in Island near the City Schalholt in the South part of the Isle The Natives call it one of the mouths of Hell It vomits Floods and Rivers of Fire like Aetna and Vesuvius notwithing its nearness to the Polar Circle Hegow Hegovia a small Territory in the Circle of Schwaben between the Lake of Zell or the Zeller Sea to the East and Schwartzwaldt or the Black Wood to the West not above six German Miles in length In part under the House of Austria and in part under the Duke of Brandenburgh Heidelburgh Edelberga Budoris Heidelberga The chief City of the Palatinate of the Rhine seated in a Plain at the foot of an Hill upon the River Necker which is covered here with a woodden Bridge This is a great well peopled place and the usual Residence of the Elector Palatine who has here a noble and magnificent Castle built upon an Hill It stands three Miles from Spires to the North-East ten from Franckfort upon the Main to the South and twenty from Vlm to the North-West Said to be a Fee of the Bishoprick of Worms and that it was granted to Lewis Count Palatine in 1225. by Henry Bishop of VVorms Robert Count Palatine afterwards Emperor in 1392. as Marquardus Freherus saith much enlarged it and joined the Village of Berghimb to it as a Suburb Rupertus Count Palatine in 1346. opened here an University and endowed it with great Privileges In 1622 this City was taken by the Spaniards and plundered and the Noble Library which the Princes Palatine had collected was sent to Rome In the long Swedish War it was taken and retaken several times till at last in 1649. by the Treaty of Munster it was restored to its former Master In 1688. October 25. both the City and Castle were surrendred to the French This City is supposed to be the Budoris of Ptolemy and was in ancient times the Seat of the Vangiones Heiden Heida a Town in Holstein Heidenheim Ara Flavia a Town in Schwaben Her●a Hela a Town in Prussia Polonica upon the Bay of Pautzkerwick almost encompassed by the Baltick Sea It stands four German Miles from Dantzick to the North burnt in 1572. by an accidental Fire but since rebulit Heilichlandt Actania Saxonum Insula a small Island belonging to the Duke of Holstein six Miles