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<blockquote>Of BITHINIA and the Cities thereof. ...erlain with 800000 Tartarians, encountred Baiaset with 500000, where 20000 lost their lives, and Baiaset in his pride of heart taken and •…end up in an

Principall Towns and Cities of it, 1. Me•inde, a commodious Haven. 2. Onor, a Port-Town of good note, ...es in Salsette, and other Religious houses founded by them, in their other Cities.</blockquote>

...vided as I said before into the higher and lower part, and hath many faire Cities and Townes in it. In the higher there are Ebrodunum, which hath a Prelate,

...durius King of Cambaia who had then distressed it: in which fight Badurius lost his tents and Treasures, and was fain to fly disguised unto Diu, to crave a

...teth the Vn•li. But when Caesar maketh them to be neere unto the Armorican Cities (which is a Maritaine Nation) some thinke that this name belongeth to the L

...this Deliverance (viz.) Ann. M. 3508, there arose a Contention between the Cities of Samos and Miletus, concerning Priene a City on the River Meander; the Mi

...Euphrates, in those daies a faire and beautifull Citie, now having almost lost all that splendor and glory it then justly boasted of: Many famous accident [[Category:Cities]]

...ike, may be thought to descend from the transmigrations of some of the ten lost Tribes of the Jews. About two hundred years ago, the Caliph of Meccha dispa

...ell known; formerly it was joyned to the Firm Land by a Bridge. It had two Cities; now hath nothing but one Castle worth notice, and many Hamlets which gathe .... The people of Zaora live by selling Chalk and Clay to their neighbouring Cities, and they of Ethamma live by Theft and Robbery.

...s, which is not wall'd, is known for its Baths. The Dutchy of Barr has the Cities of Barleduc, St. Mihel, and Pont-a-Mousson. Vaucouleurs, one of the adjacen

...ey have not onely lost their wonted libertie, but also many Fortresses and Cities, as Testis, Lori, Clisca, G•ri, and Tomanis, and withall, some of of them

Cairo is then commonly reputed to be one of the greatest and most famous Cities of the world called by the Arabians el Cahair, •…ted in a beautifull pl ...dered, what doth the place want to make it absolute but onely what it hath lost? which is the vast trade of India, which of late yeeres the Portugalls, Eng

...their own, and not the use of Bread. The Moscovites have of late built the Cities Tobolsk, upon the River Y••im and Siber on the Obb here, and united bot ...ver Obb or Oby, and the second is [[Tobolsk|Tobol]] or Tobolska, which two Cities are both Sees of one and the same Archbishop; for in [[Russia|Moscovia]] th

...iloa, Mosambique, Mom•…a, and in Ormus in the Persian gulph, lately againe lost. In In•… they have the Castles and Townes of Diu, Daman, Basain, •… ..., Macasar, Cion, Sanguin, Cauripana, Getigan and Supara: the two principal Cities, are Macasar and Bantachia. The South parts are much frequented by the Engl

...a. The people of this Country even untill these times, except it be in the Cities, are rude, rustick, stout, and strong of body. Mercator doth thus describe

** The Kingdom of SUS, or TESSET, with its Quarters and Cities of ...ich till the Earth and prune Vineyards, Servants; and those which abide in Cities, Courtiers, and Effeminate: And these Arabs are esteemed more civil and ing

...e at the Tolkens villany and deceit as the Dutch doe, their voyage will be lost and their commodities to their prejudice remain unsold; this is in briefe t ...ot tell how to get out, and so sit buzzing so long, till at last they have lost their tale, and forgot their number, and so are forced to begin to tell aga

...the Rhodian and Lician Seas. In this Countrey was anciently accounted 4000 Cities and Townes, those seaven famous amongst the rest to whom Saint Iohn dedicat ...Angora, and in the interim it is to bee noted that these Provinces having lost their former names, are now knowne to us by the name of Caramania, and are

...esides which they have some others: But a word or two of some of the chief Cities in Chili,* 1.23 and first of Copiapo, seated in a Fertil Valley of the same ...and Villarica: Osorno, in time received relief: The men found in the taken Cities were knockt on the head; they permitted the ransom of women, one of whom th