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land_n	east_n	south_n	southeast_n	2,434	5	13.2952	5	true

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A12609	The Ottoman of Lazaro Soranzo VVherein is deliuered aswell a full and perfect report of the might and power of Mahamet the third, great Emperour of the Turkes now raigning: together with the interestes and dealinges which he hath with sondrie other princes, what hee is plotting against the state of Christendome, and on the other side what we may practise and put in execution against him to his great damage and annoyaunce. As also a true description of diuers peoples, countries, citties and voyages, which are most necessarie to bee knowen, especially at this time of the present warre in Hungarie. Translated out of Italian into English, by Abraham Hartvvell.; L'ottomano. English.	Soranzo, Lazzaro.; Hartwell, Abraham, b. 1553.	1603 (1603)	STC 22931; ESTC S117656	132,559	234

by iust proportion and good aduise distributed and deuided some for the defence of the Hauens and some for the defence of the shore that hee shall neuer bee able to disbarke there or if hee doe it will bee to his great losse In which accident it will bee an easie matter to disperse the Reliques of the enemies armie partly because they can very hardly bee succoured by the Turke in regarde of the farre distance of his Countrey and States and partly because his Fleete of Shippes cannot well brooke those Seas eyther without daunger of breaking and rending in pieces or fighting with the Venetian Armada Lastly the Forte of Palma which is also built by the Venetian Common wealth with as religious as iudicious an aduisement will not onely serue if it please GOD at all times for a secure and safe defence against the enemie if hee shoulde bee so bolde as to trouble Istria and to passe to Friuli but it will also bee a continuall and most necessarie a Bulwarke against all the Barbarians which may attempte to come and annoy Italie And thus much let bee saide touching the State of Venice Now touching Italie forasmuch as I haue already heretofore touched the reasons which might one day moue the Ottoman to thinke of such a course I will in this place set downe the most principall wayes whereby he may come thither and that to answere to such persons as doe thinke the same not onely to be a verie difficult matter but almost altogither impossible § XIII THE Turke hath two wayes whereby he may passe from his owne Countreys and States into Italy by land one is and that is the better way for the ease of his horsemen by departing from Belgrado through the higher way which is betweene the riuers of Draua and Saua the other on this side of the Saua Both of these wayes doe meete at Lubiana called by the Dutche Luback and in olde time Nauporto a Countrey of great abundance in all thinges and most fit to bee as it were the seate of the warre The Citie it selfe is verie easie to bee surprised From hence they may goe to Goritia or rather by Piuca to passe by the Carse aboue Montfolcon both these wayes likewise doe meete at Lisonzao which the Turkes cal Ague-bianche or White waters a riuer that is verie memorable for the battaile of Theodorico king of the Gothes and of Odoacre king of the Heruli and also for the last approach of the Turkes when they arriued euen as farre as San-Cassano in Mesco vpon the Campardo burning and spoyling all the Countrey with most barbarous crueltie That way which leadeth to Goritia is for vittaile and for horse more commodious then this of Carse which for all that though it be verie stonie and rockie and also that in the Piuca there bee some wooddes and straits not so easie to be passed being neare to Scelescnytabor which is a holde kept by a few Clownes yet notwithstanding the saide way is not vnpassible for horses and was made by Attila when he came to Trieste and passed on to Aquileia And hereupon it came that Theodorico after he was become the Lord and conquerour of Italie was moued in this way to fortifie Mont-falcon euen as Gradisca a little while before was erected and builded in the other way by Odoacre when hee lorded it in Italie A fortresse which was afterwardes surprised by the same Theodorico when he was sent against Odoacre by Zeno the Emperour and which was also erected for the selfe same ende and purpose for which the Seignieurie of Venice haue now builded Palma against the Turkes The Turkish Armies departing from Constantinople without comming to Mandor-Alba or Alba-Graeca which is called Belgrado and in times past Taurono may also come into one of these wayes by passing through the townes of Nis and Precup where are certaine straites on this side of Sophia and leauing Belgrado on the right hand or else without touching Sophia to meete in any sort at Nouibazar and from thence through the Dukedome of Herzegouina in Basna at Bagnaluca to meete at the last euen in the high way a little more then two dayes iourneyes distant from the territorie of Venice and very neere vnto those places where somtimes the Turks made their musters when they came into Italy This is a verie plaine and euen way fit also for carriages and for conueying of stuffe and artillarie Wherevpon Ammianus Marcellinus reporteth that by the same way Gallus the brother of Iulian was carried in a Chariot from Betouia to Pola § XIIII MOreouer the Turke to the ende hee might the more grieuously vexe and trouble Italie may at one and the selfe same time sende an Armie by land into one part of it and an Armada by Sea into another So thought the other Mahamet to haue done this Turke also that now is was there unto perswaded the last yeare by Sinan of purpose by that meanes the rather to diuert the king of Spaine and the State of Venice that is to say by his fleete troubling and molesting the Adriatike Sea euen iust in the same sort as is afore declared and his armie assailing the coasts of Sicilie and Naples or of a Calabria and Puglia replenishing all those quarters with feare and dommage There is yet fresh in memorie the surprising of Otranto by the Turkes in the dayes of the other Mahamet and the fearefull fright which the Court of Rome did sometimes take at the arriuall of the Ottoman nauie in the Tyrrhene sea For costing all along Italie with the land windes the Easterne winde the South-East winde and the South winde and comming out of Barbarie with a north-North-east winde and a Westerne winde hee may most easily ouerrunne all euen as farre as Ciuita Vecchia Besides that it is well knowne what the Turks haue done diuers times at Augusta at Cotrone at Reggio and in more auncient times what the Saracens did at Mount Gargano now called Sant-Angelo I know verie well how hard a matter it will be for the Turkes to put in execution those Designements which I haue touched before to that purpose in the second Part of this Discourse for that to be briefe this most noble Prouince of Italie being the Garden and pleasure of the world is without all doubt so well fortified both by Nature and Art so full of Gold and people and vittailes also especially if by Gods punishment or by some other accident the haruests do not proue so barren as they haue beene these last yeares and lastly so carefully kept and gouerned by her Catholike and valourous Princes as a man may resolutely conclude that if the Turke do come thither either he shall retire and returne as heretofore diuerse his elders and predecessours haue done or else Italy shall become his Graue and Sepulchre euen as it hath alwayes beene to all Barbarians But for as much as it is the