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(Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Marcianopoli, Marcianopolis, a City of the ancient Mysia, now in Bulgaria, commonly called Preslaw; it had this Name from Marciana, a Sister of Trajan; and and was a Bishops See, but is now an Archbishoprick, and in a flourishing State: twenty Miles from the Euxine Sea, on the Borders of Thrace; by the Turks called old Constantinople.</blockquote>") |
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1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.
Marcianopoli, Marcianopolis, a City of the ancient Mysia, now in Bulgaria, commonly called Preslaw; it had this Name from Marciana, a Sister of Trajan; and and was a Bishops See, but is now an Archbishoprick, and in a flourishing State: twenty Miles from the Euxine Sea, on the Borders of Thrace; by the Turks called old Constantinople.