Fulda, River

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

Fuld, Fulda, a River of Germany, which gives Name both to the City and Territory last mentioned; it ariseth in this Territory towards Franconia; and running Northward, watereth Fuld, and Hurschfeld in Hassia; then entertaining the Eder, he passeth by Cassel; and at Minden in Westphalia, being united with the Wertz and Verra, they two form the Weser, Visurgis, one of the greatest Rivers in Germany; which dividing the Dukedom of Breme from the Earldom of Oldenburgh, falls into the German Ocean at Carlestad, between Emden to the West, and Hamburgh to the North-East.