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  • I find belonging to Africa many Ilands, which are found to afford many notable commodities for Merchan ...call the Indian Sea, is the greatest of the Islands that are attributed to Africa. It is distant from it a hundred or a hundred and twenty Leagues, and there
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  • <blockquote>Of ARMENIA and the Provinces and Cities thereof. ...]], on the South [[Mesopotamia]]; the whole Countrey is divided into three Provinces; first, [[Colchis]]; secondly, [[Georgia]]; thirdly, [[Turcomania]].
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  • ...of Gueguere; in part by an Imaginary Line, which separates it from divers Provinces; of which, some belong to the Turks; who hold all that is on the Red Sea, w ...ueguere; not making any mention of the City of this name, nor John Leon of Africa, nor the Arab of Nubia, nor Vincent Blanck, who saith, he hath been in thes
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  • ...r the Greater Syrtes, these tombs historically marked the boundary between Africa and Libya, as well as between the territories of the Carthaginians and Cyre ...are the Tombs of Philenes or Arae Philenarum, which set the Limits between Africa and Libya; and afterwards between the Estates of the Carthaginians and the
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  • |Contains provinces = ..., and Cape Cagliari; Its chief places are, 1. Cagliari, seated opposite to Africa, having a commodious Haven, which makes it to be well frequented by Merchan
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  • <blockquote>CYRENE is bounded on the East with Marmarica, on the West with Africa Propria, or the Realm of Tunis, and some part of the Mediterranean, and the ...son Libya Pentapolis, the name of Libya extending over many of these Roman Provinces. And finally, at the present, it passeth with that last described by the na
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  • <blockquote>BILLEDULGERID, with its several Kingdoms, Parts, or Provinces, which may be considered as they lie ...e great Ocean Sea, and on the East Egypt. Its principal Parts, Kingdoms or Provinces, are, Sus or Tesset, Darha, Segelomesse, Tegorarin, Zeb, Billedulgerid, and
    21 KB (3,630 words) - 02:07, 20 January 2025
  • ...made many divisions of it. Ptolomie doth divide it into 47. Countries and Provinces, the description whereof hee delivers in his fift, sixt, and seaventh Booke <blockquote>Of ASIA, and the Provinces thereof.
    34 KB (5,708 words) - 16:42, 12 January 2025
  • ...gave to that part of it which they won from the Carthaginians, the name of Africa; calling that Province by the name of the whole Peninsula; and afterwards e ...se Bishops ranked into six Classes, according to the number of the African Provinces: the Bishops of each Province subject to their own Metropolitan, who in thi
    46 KB (7,851 words) - 03:05, 24 January 2025
  • ..., and Butua; the Kingdome of Cafria, and Manicong, in which there are sixe Provinces, Sunde, Pango, Songo, Bamba, Barra & Pemba, to which are added the Kingdome <blockquote>AFRICA, AND THE PROVINCES AND CITIES OF TRADE THEREOF.
    78 KB (12,549 words) - 02:09, 20 January 2025
  • ...of little Isles: From hence the King of Maldives terms himself King of 13 Provinces, and 12000 Isles; though there be many less, and the most of them desart, a ...t possibility of stopping of it; and on the other side, even to Arabia and Africa.
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  • ...ith Rome for the mastery of all the world, and challenged the prioritie in Africa as queene and supreame Lady thereof, now onely seene in her ruines, and kno ...and these coines passe thus currant in Tripolis, [[Barbary|Barbaria]], in Africa, Vna, Biserta, and other maritime parts alongst the coast.
    54 KB (9,470 words) - 19:18, 26 January 2025
  • ...ncients. The fourth is [[America|America Septentrionalis]], containing the Provinces of Estotilant, Terra de Labrador. Terra de Biccaleos, Nova Francia, Norimbe ...nty Christian Kingdomes at this day, as farre excelling the residue of the Provinces in Religion, Arts, Valour, and Civilitie, as in elder age it did surpasse t
    69 KB (11,802 words) - 18:14, 18 January 2025
  • ...the entertainment of Ʋlysses and his Fellows. This Isle is divided into 3 Provinces or Valleys. ...ance. From the most Western called Lilybee, may be discovered Cap Bon in [[Africa]], though it be a hundred Miles off. Mount Aetna, now called Mount Gibel, c
    30 KB (5,119 words) - 03:20, 13 January 2025
  • ...re necessary for food, or to delight the smell, or recreate the sight. The Provinces hereof are Hea, which on the East is enclosed with the River Essivalus, on <blockquote>Of the Kingdome of MOROCCO and the Provinces thereof.
    43 KB (7,513 words) - 02:06, 20 January 2025
  • ...OPE, the PORTUGALS or Kingdom of PORTUGAL comprehendeth three Regions, six Provinces, twenty Almoxarifatz; (that is, Courts of Audience, or for the Receipt of t ** Between the Rivers MINHO and DOURO; where are the Provinces of
    46 KB (7,685 words) - 02:15, 16 January 2025
  • *The ISLES of AFRICA, as they lie and are found *1.1THE Isle of MADAGASCAR, or St. LAƲRENCE, is much greater than any about Africa, if not the greatest of both Continents. It stretches it self from a little
    93 KB (16,183 words) - 02:25, 20 January 2025
  • ...other, by the addition of Interior, as lying more within the main land of Africa, the other being partly a Maritine Country. ...ill next look upon it in its present condition; as comprehending the whole Provinces of 1 Biledulgerid, or Numidia. 2 Libya Deserta, or Sarra; and 3. a great pa
    21 KB (3,705 words) - 03:54, 3 January 2025
  • ...subject to the Turks; whose Beglerbeg or Supreme Officer for these African Provinces, resides for the most part in Algiers, and hath 40000 Timariots under his c ...Tributary. Huerguela or Guergela, Cuco, Tricarta or Techcort, and Labes. 2 Provinces, Benirasid, and Tebesse. 2 Dynasties or Signiories, Meliana, and Angat: And
    48 KB (8,122 words) - 02:04, 20 January 2025
  • ** The Kingdom of IRELAND, with its Provinces, which were formerly so many Kingdoms, viz. * In AFRICA, in the Kingdom of — Fex, — Tangler.
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