Wolga, River

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

Rha. See Wolga.

Uolga. See Wolga.

Wolga, Rha, one of the greatest Rivers, not only of Russia. but of Europe: called by the Tartars, Edel; by the Armenians, Thamar. It ariseth in the Province of Resckow, towards the Borders of Lithuania near the Lake of Wronow: and falls first into the Lake of Wolgo. Then flowing East it watereth Tweer, Gorodna, Jerislow, and Novogorod Nisi. (where it receives the Occa, a vast River, from Moscow:) so passing North to Wasiligorod and Casan, it turns East to Samara, and South to Soratof. A little above the ruins of Zaresgorod, it detaches a small River to the North, and beneath it 7 more; which all fall into the first. So passing to Astrachan, beneath that City it falls with four Mouths into the Caspian Sea. The learned Olearius has given an exact Map of this River, from the entrance of the Occa to its fall into the Caspian Sea.