Oczakow

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

Oczakow, Axiace, a City of Podolia, seated at the fall of the Nieper into the Euxine Sea; thirty Miles from Czircassia. Near this City the Poles gave the Tartars a fatal overthrow in 1644.

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Ocziakow, or Oczakow, Lat. Axiace, a City of Podoliae seated at the fall of the Borysthenes or Nieper into the Euxine Sea. thirty Miles from Circassia. It now belongs to the Turks. Near this City the Poles gave the Tartars a fatal overthrow in 1644. * This City has a Castle which is Garrison'd by the Turks, but the Citizens are Precopensian Tartars. It was built by Vitolaus Duke of Lithuania, and at first peopled by his Subjects. The Country betwixt this City and Circassia is desolate, as being expos'd to the Tartars and Cassocks. This City is forty Polish Miles W. from Precopia, four Miles E. of Alba in Walachia, and four S. from Czircassia. It gives Name to the neighbouring Tartars who are so troublesome to Podolia, Lithuania and Poland, that the King of the latter pays them Tribute to prevent their Incursions. On Ascension-day 1571, they plundered and burnt Moscow, carrying vast numbers of Russians into Slavery. Guagninus.