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=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===
=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===
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Cattaro, Cattara, a City in Dalmatia, which has been under the Venetians ever since 1420. It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Bari; and is a strong Place, well seated on a Hill, having a Castle belonging to it, and 17 Villages. It lies 40 Miles South of Ragusa, and 35 North-West of Scutari, upon a Bay of the Adriatick Sea, call'd Cattaro, which takes its name from this Place. The Turks have often attempted to take it in Vain.</blockquote>
Cava, a great and populous City and a Bishop's See in the hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples; seated partly upon a Hill, and partly in a Valley, within four Miles of Salerno, and about 20 from Naples to the South. This Bishop was heretofore a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Salerno; but now exempted; and is immediately under the Pope; which Honor was obtained from Boniface IX, in 1394. yet is the Bishop's Jurisdiction limited with the Walls of the City. There is also a Abbey in it.</blockquote>

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

Cava, a great and populous City and a Bishop's See in the hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples; seated partly upon a Hill, and partly in a Valley, within four Miles of Salerno, and about 20 from Naples to the South. This Bishop was heretofore a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Salerno; but now exempted; and is immediately under the Pope; which Honor was obtained from Boniface IX, in 1394. yet is the Bishop's Jurisdiction limited with the Walls of the City. There is also a Abbey in it.