Thibet

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1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Thibet, Thibetum, a Kingdom in the Asiatick Tartary; between Tartary, (properly so called,) and the Desart Tartary to the North, Indosthan to the South, Tangut to the East, and Mawaralnatharia to the West. Of which there is little known but the Name. Some make it the same with, others a part of, Turquestan.