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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

middle between Tours to the North and S. Maxence to the South six Leagues from each Parthen Alisus a City of Pomerania towards the Shoars of the Baltick Sea under the Dominion of the Swedes near the River Bart two German Miles from the Borders of the Dukedom of Magdeburg to the East and four from Gripswald Partherberg the German Name of the Apennine Hills in Italy Parthia a Kingdom of the Ancient Persia established about the year of Rome 508 of the World 3808 two hundred and fifty years before Christ in the person of Arsaces from whom all the succeding Kings were called Arsacides and ended with the Death of Artabanus King of Parthia slain by Artaxerxes King of Persia about two hundred twenty seven years after Christ when it had enjoyed a Duration of above four hundred years It rendered it self sometime so puissant as to dispute the Empire of the East with the Romans Situated betwixt Hircania Media Aria Carmania and the Modern Province of Fars i. e. Persia properly so called A Country not at all fruitful yet nevertheless then inhabited by a fierce warlike indefatigable People particularly famous for a Dexterity in shooting one way behind them as they fled another Ptolemy reckons in his time in this Kingdom twenty five Cities whereof the Capital was Hecatompolis which is understood to be the Modern Haspaam in the Province of Hierach Arach or Erak-Atzem in Persia as that Province together with Khoemus and a part of Corasan are understood to comprehend now the ancient Parthia Le Partois Pagus Pertensis a Tract in the Province of Champagne in France between Champagne to the West and the Dukedom de Bar to the East towards the River Marne The principal Town of which is Vitri le Francois Pas a Town and Bailywick in the Earldom of Artois upon the River Authie which gives Name to one of the ancientest and best Families there It had heretofore a Castle and a Collegiate Church The Bailywick is of a considerable Extent adorned with the Title of a Barony and united to the Crown of France by the Treaty of the Pirenees Pas de Calais Fretum Britannicum the Streight between Calais and Dover Passage a Port Town in Biscay Passarvan a City and Port on the East of the Island of Java in the East-Indies betwixt the Cities Panarucan and Jortan towards the Cape of Balambuam Heretofore the Capital of a Kingdom of its Name there Passaw Patavia a City of the Lower Bavaria in Germany which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Saltsburg of old called Batava Castra It stands at the Confluence of the Inn and the Danube by which it is divided into three pa●ts called Paslaw Ilnstat and Innstat An Imperial and Free City but under the Protection of its own Bishop whose Revenue is about forty thousand Crowns with the Territory about it which lies between the Dukedom of Bavaria to the West and the Vpper Austria to the East having the strong Castles of Obernberg and Ebersberg standing in it This City suffered very much by a Fire of late in 1661 being mostly built of Wood Over against it lies Oberhuis the Residence of the Bishop That which makes this City most regardable is the Peace of Religion here Established by Ferdinand I. Emperor of Germany in 1552 whereby the free Profession of Lutherainsm in Germany upon equal Terms with the Roman Catholick Religion was declared and confirmed Passava a Fort in the Province of Laconia in the Morea upon the Cape Matapan near the Banks of the Bay of Colochina taken and demolished by General Morosini in 1685 because of a narrow Passage hard by where a handful of Men might make head against an Army Passo di Cane Climax a Mountain of Phoenicia twenty Miles from Tripoli to the South Pastrana a Town in Old Castile upon the River Taio thirteen Miles from Madrid to the East and eighteen from Toledo Honored with the Title of a Dukedom Pata a City and Kingdom upon the Borders of Zanguebar in Africa Les Patagons Patagones a People of Magellanica near the Shoars of the North Sea towards Brasil This County was first discovered by F. Magellane and yet not much known Patane Patana a City and Kingdom in the Further Indies under the King of Siam and near the Kingdom of Malaca in a healthful and fruitful Clime The City stands upon the Bay of Siam Les Patans a Mahometan People possessing the Mountains about the River Ganges in the Empire of the Great Mogul They heretofore dwelt toward the Kingdom of Bengale whence making a Transplantation of themselves into Delly they became so puissant there as to render many Princes and Places tributary to them But when the Tartars conquered India about the year 1401 being no longer able to maintain their Power or Residence in the open Country they took Refuge in the Mountains fortifying and abiding in them ever since Patay en Beausse Patavium a Town in Beausse in France seated five Leagues from Orleans to the North towards Chartres nine to the South Near this Place the French under the Command of John Duke of Alanzon got a great Victory over the English under Talbot the Terror of the French Nation Patera Patara or Paterea a City of Lycia in the Lesser Asia once called Arsinoe as Strabo saith it stands upon a Hill at the Mouth of the River Xanthus now called Il Scamandro eighty Miles from Rhodes to the East a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Myra Famous in the person of S. Nicholas who was both a Bishop and a Native here Apollo had an Oracle in this City in the Times preceding Christianity which observed to make its Responses the space of six Months in the year Pathmos or Patmos an Island in the Aegean Sea of signal Fame for the Banishment of S. John the Evangelist and his Writing the Book of the Apocalypse there Now called variously by Writers Palmosa and Petina Patras Patrae a City of the Morea in the Duchy of Clarentia of great Antiquity called by the Turks Badra and Balisbadra that is the Old Patrae as Leunclavius expounds their Name The Italians used to call it Neopatria It is an Archbishops See and now in a flourishing Condition Seated at the Entrance of the Gulph of Lepanto about seven hundred Paces from the Shoars of the Gulph of Patras to the East and ninety from Corinth to the West Chosen by Augustus for a Station for his Fleets and on that account much honored by him Under the latter Greek Emperors it had Dukes of its own till the year 1408 when the last of them resigned it to the Venetians not being able to defend it against the Turks When it came first into the Hands of the Turks I do not find but Mahomet III. received a great Defeat near this Place in the year 1602. Doria the Christian Admiral took it from the Turks in 1533. They then soon after recovered it but in the year 1687 it sell again into

men The Buildings are ancient the Inhabitants grave It stands in a Marsh which makes it less healthful though it affords the City a great plenty of all things The Cathedral Church of S. Luke that is there now was heretofore the Temple of Diana Long. 39. 24. Lat. 36. 24. Syria a vast Country in the Greater Asia called by the Jews Aram or Charam When it is largely taken it contains Phoenicia Palestine or the Holy Land and Syria properly so called In the latter Acceptation it is bounded to the North by Cilicia and the lesser Armenia on the East by Mesopotamia divided from it by the Euphrates and Arabia Deserta on the South it has Palestine and Phoenicia and on the West the Mediterranean Sea Now called by the Inhabitants Souristan by the French Sourie by the Italians Soria It s length from North to South four hundred from East to West it is in breadth two hundred Italian Miles In very ancient Times Damascus was the capital City in the middle times Antioch now Aleppo This Country is by Nature extremely Fruitful and once as Populous but now almost desolate As to the Story of it N. Damascenus mentions one Adadus slain by David King of Israel after whom there followed a Succession of Kings thirteen in number the last of which Rezin was conquered by Tiglath Phileser King of Assyria and beheaded in Damascus about the year of the World 3213. After this they were subject to the Kings of Assyria Media and Persia till after the Death of Alexander the Great Seleucus Nicanor began another Kingdom here about the year of the World 3644 whose Posterity and Successors to the number of twenty one or twenty five of which Antiochus XII was the last Reigned till Pompey the Great made a perfect Conquest of all Syrià for the Romans in the year of the World 4650 sixty two years before the Birth of our Saviour It continued under the Romans till the year of Christ 636. or as others 34. when it was conquered by Haumer the third Calyph of the Saracens About the year of Christ 1075. Melech and Ducat began a Turkish Kingdom which in the year 1262 after a Descent of nine Kings was destroyed by Haalon the Tartar Next it fell into the Hands of the Mamalucks of Egypt under whom it continued till the year 1515 and then was conquered by Selim Emperor of the Turks under whom it is at this day most wretchedly harassed and desolated Syrtes two dangerous sandy Gulphs in the Mediterranean Sea upon the Coast of Barbary in Africa called antiently Syrtes magna parva now the Gulph de Sidra and de Capes In one name the Shoals of Barbary The first lies betwixt the Kingdoms of Tripoli and Barca the other betwixt Tripoli and Tunis TA. TA a River on the South of China in the Provinces of Quansey and Quantam Tabago the Tobacco Island in the West-Indies in the North Sea Possessed by the Dutch commonly also called Niew Walcheren It lies eight Miles from la Trinidad to the North-East and ninety South of Barbadoes having eighteen small Rivers and many sase Harbours about nine Dutch Miles long and three broad very fruitful and full of all Necessaries About forty years since the Dutch began to plant it In 1673. the English under Sir Tobias Bridges took and plundered it carried away four hundred Prisoners and as many Negroes In 1677. the French being desirous to drive the Dutch out of it sent the Comte d' Estrée with ten Ships which entered Klips Bay and for several days ingaged a Fleet of eight Dutch Ships there lying under the Command of James Binckes a Dutchman who so well defended the Island that though the French pretended they destroyed the Fort the Dutch had built yet they were forced to draw off and leave the Dutch Masters of the Place Long. 316. Lat. 10. 30. The whole Plantation of this Island is Tobacco after its name Tabarestan Tabarestania a Province of Persia toward the Caspian Sea containing a great part of the ancient Hyrcania The Caspian Sea is sometimes from this Province called the Sea of Tabarestan Asterabath its Capital City Tabarque Tabraca an ancient City in the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa upon the Mediterranean Sea betwixt Hippo and Vtica It hath had the honour in the times of Christianity there to be a Bishops See but now only considerable for its Port. Pliny Claudian and Stephanus mention it Tabasco Tabasca a Town and Province in New Spain in North America The Province lies between the Bay of Mexico to the North and the Province of Chiapa to the South extended from East to West forty six Spanish Leagues The principal City in it was by the Indians called Tabasco but the Spaniards call it Nuestra Sennora de la Vi●toria our Lady of Victory because Cortez the Spanish General gave the Mexicans an irrecoverable Defeat near this Place Tabenna an Island of the Thebais in the Kingdom of Egypt near the City Syene Inhabited formerly by the Monks entituled Tabenniosi●ae from it in whose times Tabennis was a small Town standing here Tabor Taborium a Town in Bohemia upon the River Lauznicz twenty Miles from Budwess and forty five from Prague The Hussites made this Place the Seat of their War and fortified it and from thence for twenty years ruined the Imperial and Hereditary Countries called thereupon Taborites Tacara a small Kingdom on the Coast of Guinea in Africa Tacaze Tacasus Astaboras a vast River in the Higher Aethiopia which ariseth in the Kingdom of Angote chiefly from three Fountains and runs West sometime between Dagana and Hoga Then bending North through the Kingdom of Tigre it watereth the Desart of Oldeba and joyns the River Mareb or Marebo Being much improved it passeth through the Kingdom of Dengin and at Jalack falls into the Nile in the Kingdom of Nubia from the East Tachiali Antiochia Maeandri a City of Caria in the Lesser Asia which was a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ephesus from which it stands seventy Miles to the East upon the Meander and thirty seven from Bursia to the South Latitus Bishop of this See subscribed to the Council of Chalcedon Long. 58.00 Lat. 39. 30. Tadcaster a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire which hath a large Stone Bridge over the River Warfe and Lime-Stone digged up in its Neighbourhood in Plenty Tadouslack Tadussacum a Town in New France upon the Bay of S. Laurence where it receives the River Saguen a hundred Miles from Quebec to the South-East Taenarus See Matapan Taff Rhatostathybius a small River in Glamorganshire in Wales which watering and giving name to Landaff falls into the Irish Sea near the Borders of Monmouthshire Taflete Tafleta a Kingdom in Biledulgerida in Africa between Segellomessa to the East and Darba to the West bounded with the Kingdom of Morocco to the North. The Capital City is of the same name A populous and plentiful City fortified with a Castle of great Trade for Indico

but no more and so S. Thomas was the Head of Theirs In 1546. Dom Juan Albuquerque a Franciscan Archbishop of Goa erected a College at Cranganoor for the conversion of these Christians to the Church of Rome In 1587. the Jesuits established another one League from Cranganoor And in 1559. Meneses Archbishop of Goa and Primate of the East was employed in a grand Mission hither to promote the same Conversion But the Christians of S. Thomas will not by all the endeavours that are used be induced to forsake the ancient Customs of their Forefathers They use the Chaldee language in their Offices Acknowledge the Patriarch of Babylon for their Chief Practise their own Ceremonies and in matters of Faith are Nestorians Thongcaster an ancient Town in the division of Lindsey in Lincolnshire upon the side of a Hill Owing its rise to a Castle said to be built here with the permission of Vortiger the British Prince by Hengist the Saxon after his Victory over the Picts and Scots Thorn Torunium a City of Prussia Regalis upon the Vistula four Polish Miles from Culm twenty two from Dantzick to the South and twenty nine from Warsaw to the North-West This was once an Imperial and Free City under the protection of the Teutonick Order whom some make the Founders of it in 1234 but in 1454. it put it self into the Hands of the Poles who have granted it great Privileges Nicolas Copernicus the great Astronomer was a Native of this Place Albert King of Poland died here in 1501. In 1645. there was a Conference here between the Lutherans Calvinists and Roman Catholicks which had no success In 1655. this Place was taken by the Swedes retaken by the Poles in 1658. by a Siege of six Months Thornbury a Market Town in Gloucestershire The Capital of its Hundred Thorne a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Strafford Thorney-I●e a small Island to the East of Portsmouth in Hampshire Thou a Castle in Champagne giving name to the ancient and Honourable Family de Thou which produced the Historian Jacobus Augustus Thuanus in the last Century born in 1553. made Counsellor of State to Henry IV. of France and Commissioner at the Conference of Fontainbleau in 1600 he composed a noble History of his times from 1543. to 1608. in one hundred thirty eight Books in Latin and dyed May 17 1617. in great Honor. Thovars Duracium a City of Poictou in France upon the River Tove six Leagues beneath Salmur to the South towards Rochelle and the Confines of Anjou It gives the Title of a Duke and was lately beautified by a magnificent Castle built by the Duke de Tremolle Thoura Aremone or Emmone Armenia the Less in Asia Thrace Thracia Pieria Odrysia is a great Province of Greece called by the Italians Romania by the Greeks Rumelie and by the Turks Icella Bounded on the South by the Archipelago on the East by the Propontis and the Black Sea on the North by Bulgaria and on the West by Macedonia The Principal Cities in it are Constantinople Gallipoli Adrianople Philippopoli Selivrée and Trajanopoli two of which are the Royal Cities of the Turkish Empire The Mariza or Hebrus is its principal River Rhodope Orbelus and Haemus its most famous Mountains Abdera Cypsella and Perinthus some of its ancient Cities The Thrausi mentioned by Livy for a custom of making rejoycings for deaths and mournings for births were some of its ancient Inhabitants This Province is twenty days Journey in length from East to West and seven broad Its Soil not fruitful nor its Air pleasant Corn and Fruits by reason of the sharpness of the Air ripening slowly and yielding meanly The Story of this Country is already delivered in Constantinople and Adrianople Thrapston a Market-Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Navisford upon the Eastern Banks of the River Nen. Thrasymene a Lake in Hetruria now in Ombria in the States of the Church upon the Borders of the Dukedom of Thuscany seven Miles from Perugia Hannibal obtained a Victory over Flaminius a Consul at this Lake It is now called the Lake of Perugia di Castiglione and di Passignano The Three Churches in Turcomannia or Armenia Major are three famous Monasteries near to one another three Leagues from the City Erivan upon the Borders of Persia where the Patriarch of the Armenian Christians attended by his Archbishops and Bishops living in Community resides under the protection of the King of Persia They are much visited by the Caravans that pass that way receive for their maintenance yearly a small rent of every Christian of the age of 15. and are allowed by the King of Persia steeples and ornaments to their Churches One of these Monasteries is a Nunnery for Women The Turks call the place Eguriasin Thrusk or Thirsk a Market Town and Borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Hundred of Budforth It had antiently a strong Castle for its security and now is represented in Parliament by two Burgesses Thryn a River in the County of Norfolk Thule is commonly understood to be Iseland in the Northern Ocean or Schetland Thur or Dur Durus a River of Switzerland which ariseth in the Valley of S John and watering Durgow falls into the Rhine two Miles above Eglisow in the Canton of Zurick Plantinus saith it falls into the Rhine at Schellenburgh Thuringia a Province of Germany called by the Natives Thuringen and Duringen It lies in the Upper Circle of Saxony between Misnia to the East Anhault and Brunswick to the North the Lower Hassia to the West and Franconia and Henneberg to the South The Capital is Erfurt under the Archbishop of Mentz In the times of the Clodovean Kings of France this Province had Kings of its own but now divided amongst many Princes Lewis the first Land●grave of Thuringe who died in 1055. was a Descendent of Charles the Great and thought to be the Son of Charles Duke of Lorain Brother of Lewis IV. Brother of S. Lewis V. who died in 1215. In 1423. it became united with the Dukedom of Saxony as it now is It is invironed with woody Mountains within plain pleasant and fruitful in Corn has some Mines of Gold and Silver and rich Pits of Salt so that it wants nothing but Wine About one hundred and twenty Miles square but so populous that it has twelve Earldoms one hundred and forty four Cities as many Market Towns one hundred and fifty Castles and two thousand Villages Tibarent an ancient People mentioned by Strabo and Pliny towards the Euxine Sea and Cappadocia in the Lesser Asia Neighbours to the Chalybes Tiber Tiberis is one of the most noted Rivers of Italy in the most ancient Times called Albula In those of the Roman Empire it separated Hetruria from Umbria Sabina and Latium At this day called by the Italians Tevere by the French le Tibre It ariseth from Falterona one of the Apennine Hills near Monte Corvaio a Village in the Dukedom of