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• 23:54, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Transylvania (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>TRANSYLVANIA, OR SIEBENBVRGEN. (Book Transylvania) TRANSYLVANIA is the mediterranean part of anci∣ent d 1.1 Dacia, which the Romans called Dacia Ripensis,* 1.2 and it taketh...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:53, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The World (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>OF THE WORLD. (Book description of the world) THis Universe, which rather presents it selfe to the con∣templation of the minde of man, then to the sight of the Eyes, for the perfect elegancie, and absolute puritie there∣of, is called in Latine Mundus. This Pliny, in the 11. Lib.* 1.1 Cap. 1. of his Naturall Historie, calleth, That which cove∣ret...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:51, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Princes Island (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>NOt farre from hence 3. degrees beyond the Aequinoctiall, is the Princes Iland. Which is so named, because the Prince of Portugal hath the revenues of this Iland. It is well inhabited, and yeeldeth great store of Sugar. And there growes in it a kinde of Date-tree which wee mentioned before, out of which there commeth a juyce which they drinke.</blockqu...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:48, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of the Sound (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== ===1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome.=== <blockquote> *The ISLES of the SONDE; which may be comprehended under **Great ISLES, and particularly called the Isles of the SONDE; and such are those of ***SUMATRA, with its Kingdoms of ****Achem, *****Achem, *****Daya. ****Pacem, *****Pedir, *****Pacem. ****Aru, *****Aru, *****Bancalis. ****Baras, *****Baras, *****Batham. ****Camper, — Camper. ****Guadahyri, — Guadahyr...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:46, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of West Indies (Created page with "=== 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>IN the West-Indies as they call it, there are many Ilands some greater and some lesser. The greater are called S. Iohns Iland, Hispaniola, Cuba, Iamayca. The lesser are of two sorts, some of which are commonly call'd Stotavento situated Southward: the other called Barlovento doe lie Northward, and were first discoverd by Columbus. The chiefe of the Majorick Ilands is S. Iohns Ilan...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:45, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of Larrons (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== ===1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome.=== <blockquote> =====The Isles of LARRONS, or THEEVES.===== *1.49WE have almost nothing to say touching the Isles of THE EVES. They are 16 or 20 different Isles, which continue from about the 8th unto the 20th and 21st degree of Latitude on this side the Equator, and are almost all under the 188 Meridian. Their names, scituation and greatness, a guess may be given of by the Char...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:43, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of Barbary (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF BARBARY. === <blockquote>THe ISLES of BARBARY, which make up the fifth and last part thereof, are situate neer the African shores of the Mediterranean, assigned by Ptolomy to the Province of Africa Propria. In number sixteen: 1 Hydras. 2 Calathe, 3 Dracontias, now called Chelbi. 4 Aegymnus, by Strabo called Aeginarus, and now Guietta. 5 Larunesia, now Mollium. 6 Lapedusa, now Lampedosa...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:42, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of Bandan (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF THE ORIENTAL ILANDS. === <blockquote>THe Isles of BANDAN are in number seven, that is to say 1. Mira, 2. Rosalargium, 3. A••, 4. Rom, 5. Nerra, 6 Ganuape, the least of all, continually burning, and for that cause deserted of its inhabitants, and 7. Bandan, bigger than any of the rest, and therefore giving name to all. Situate South of the Philippines, in the seventh degree of South...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:41, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Isles of Africa (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== Category:Islands ===1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome=== <blockquote> *The ISLES of AFRI∣CA, as they lie and are found **In the Mediterranean Sea, And on the Coast of BARBARY, as the ISLES of ***MALTA, ****Marzasirocco, ****Vallett•, ****il Borgo, ****Madalena, ****Medina, ****St. Maria Meleca, ****St. Maria Loret••, ****Rodumifessa. ***GOZA, ****Goza Cast, ****Scilendo. ***Cumin, — Cumin. ***Forfala,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:39, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Ceylon (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== ===1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator.=== <blockquote>THE Iland Zeilan or Ceilon the Arabians doe call Tenarizim and Ternasseri, that is, the Land of Delight,* 1.1 and the Indians Hibernarum. This Iland Ptolemy calleth Taprobana, as Barrius and Corsalus doe witnesse,* 1.2 which Varrerius doth also affirme. And Ortelius in his Treasury of Geography doth consent unto him. But our Mercator thinketh it to be Nan...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:36, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Annobon (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>The Iland of the Good-yeere. (Book Good-Year) THE Iland of the Good-yeere, or de Annobon, was so called, because it was discoverd at the beginning of the New-yeere. It is situate 3. degrees Southward beyond the Aequinoctiall, and it is inhabited: there is good fishing by the shore side: and flying fishes are sometimes seene here. Here are also great s...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:34, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page The Empire of the Mogul (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1685. Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world by Pierre Duval. === <blockquote>The Empire of the Mogul. THis Empire comprehends the greatest part of the firm land of India between Persia, Tartary and China. The Mogul is the Sovereign thereof;...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:31, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Tartaria Precopensis (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF TARTARIA. === <blockquote>TARTARIA PRECOPENSIS is bounded on the East, with the River Tanais, now Don; on the West, with the River Borysthenes, now called Nerper, by which last parted from P•dol••, a Provi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:29, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Tartaria Deserta (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>TARTARIA DESERTA is bounded on the West, with Precopensis, and the Empire of Russia; on the East, with Antiqua and Zagathay, from which last parted by the River Spane, which falleth into the Caspian...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:28, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Tartaria Antiqua (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF TARTARIA. === <blockquote>TARTARIA ANTIQVA hath on the South, Altay; on the West, and North, the main Scythick Ocean; on the East the Streights of Anian, by which parted from America. So called, because the firs...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:25, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Swethland (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== ==Sources from old books:== 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator.<blockquote>The Kingdome of Swethland is an ancient Kingdome, as Pliny witnes∣seth.* 1.11 It hath on the West Norwey, on the North Lapland and Botnia, on the East •...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 23:24, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Sumatra (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF THE ORIENTAL ILANDS. === <blockquote>SVMATRA lieth on the North of the Greater Java, betwixt it and the Streight of Sincapura the most Southern Town of the Golden Chersonese. The Streight in that place so streight and narrow not above a musket shot in breadth, that some conccive this Island to have been formerly joined unto it by some little Isthmus, since worn away by the violence and...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:23, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Stralsont (Created page with " == Sources from old books: == === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXIX. Of Stralsont, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>STralsont lies also in this Tract, and is found seated on the Baltick Sea, opposite to the Island of Raugi, where the late King of Sweden first landed in his Invasion of the Empire: it is now subject to the Duke of Pomeran, and in whose cause it hath endured; long and streight Siege; but being well and strongly fort...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:22, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Straits of Magellan (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== ===1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator.=== <blockquote>ANd so much concerning Southerne America: Fretum Magellanicum or the Straites of Magellan are now briefe∣ly to be unfolded and described. It was so called from Magellan who discoverd this narrow Sea. Of whose skill and experience which hee shewed in finding out the Molucco Ilands by a Voyage made Westward, wee have spoken other wheres. He on the 24. of...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:20, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Stockholm (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXVIII. Of Stockholm, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>* 1.626BEcause I intend, upon the general Trade of Estland, to handle some particular Cities be∣longing to the Crown of Sweden, therefore I shall be the briefer upon the Trade of this City of Stockholm, the Metropolis of this Kingdom. Stockholm then being the Residence of this King, whose Arms of late were so preval...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:20, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Stiria (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>STIRIA, COMMONLY CALLED STIRMARCK, which was made a Dukedome by FREDERI OR BARBAROSSA. (Book Stiria) In it there are many Countries, among the which is WARASDEN; by the River D...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:18, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Stetin (Created page with " == Sources from old books == === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXX. Of Mosco, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>* 1.1THIS Stetin is the capital City of Pomerania, situate upon the River of Oder, in a pleasant and delightsome Soil, and carrieth in these Northern Regions that Renown, that from hence the Dukes of Stetin in Pomerland have their appellations. The City abounds in all Commodities for Merchandize that the Neighbouring Count...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:17, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Spoleto (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THe Dukedome of Spoleto commonly called Ducato di Spoleto, is so called from the Citty Spoleto, which was heretofore the Palace of the Dukes of Lombardy. It was heretofore calle...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:17, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Spallatta (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXXVII. Of Rhagusa and Spallatta, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>THE Trade of Sclavonia is at this day but of small Account, and little to our Mation: the two Cities of Spalatta and Rhagusa seated therein, merit the principal conside∣ration. ... * 1.6Note that the Weights and Measures of Spallatta do wholly agree with those in Venetia, therefore I need not to say fu...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:13, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Spain (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SPAINE is a chiefe Country of Europe, and the first part of the Continent, it was so called, as Iustine noteth from King Hispanus.* 1.1 Some would have it so called from His∣pa...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 23:07, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page South America (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SOutherne America or Pervana followeth, betweene which and new Spaine there is a Neck of Land or Isthmus which is 18.* 1.1 miles broad. Which keepeth the Country Pervana from being an Iland: and it is called the Province Dariena, from the great River Dariene. Moreover all Southerne America hath the forme of a Pyramis being broad beneath,* 1.2 and sharp...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:04, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Sicilie (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SICILIE is next to bee described, which excelleth all the Ilands of the Mediterranean Sea. Thucidides calleth it Sicania from Sicanus, who, as Solinus and Capella doe write, cam...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:03, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Serbia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SERVIA, which Lazius calls the higher Maesia, is a Country betweene Bosnia and Bulgaria. Some suppose that this was the Triballians Country: and that these people came hither, a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:01, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Selebes (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. OF THE ORIENTAL ILANDS. === <blockquote>Neer the Moluccoes, and almost intermingled with them, are a set of Ilands which Ptolomy calleth SINDAE, and the Moderns, SELEBES, many in tale, but not above four of any wei...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:00, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Scotland (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THE Northerne part of the Island of Brittaine is called Scotland, heretofore Albania. The Inhabitants who keepe their ancient speech, doe call it Albain, and the Irish Albany, a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:58, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Sclavonia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>AMONG the Countries which are presented in this Table Sclavonia is the first, which was so called from the Sclavonian Nation, who did heretofore inhabit by the Maeotick Lake. Pl...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:57, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Sardinia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SARDINIA. (Book Sardinia) SARDINIA was so named from Sardus the Sonne of Hercules. Timaeus called it Sandaliotin, because it resembleth the shape of a shooe-soale. Mirsilus and...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:56, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Santonia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>SANTONIA: OR LE PAIS DE XAINGTONGE. THE ECCLESIASTIC ALL STATE. Santonia hath a Bishoprick, namely of XAINTOGNE. (Book Santonia) SANTONIA, called commonly Le Pays de Xaintogne,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:54, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Sabaudia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THE DVKEDOME OF SABAVDIA. (Book Sabaudia) MAny doe make great inquisition concerning the name of Sabaudia.* 1.1 Some doe derive it a Sabatijs Vadis, or the Sabatian Fords. Plin...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:53, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Romania (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>ROMANIA· (Book Romania) ROMANIA is next to Bulgaria, which was so called from the chiefe Citty Constantinople, which was called also Roma ••va, or new Rome. It was heretof...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:51, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Rhodes (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>RHODES· (Book Rhodes) THERE remaineth in this Table the Iland of Rhodes. This as Pliny witnesseth was heretofore called Ophtusa, Asteria, Aethraea, Trin••hia, Corimbia, A...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:50, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Rhiga (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXVII. Of Rhiga, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>* 1.1RHiga is the principal City of Livonia, or Lissland, seated near the Embosure of the River Dunia, strengthened with an exceeding strong Wall, many Ordnance to desend it against all Enemies, and bordering upon the Lissland Sea: it was formerly the chief residence of the Teutonick Knights, and then and now reinforced b...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:49, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Rhetia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THe Rhetians are accounted an auncient people by the consent of all men. For some ages before Christs birth the Tuscians being beaten by the French out of their owne habitations...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:48, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Rhagusa (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXXVII. Of Rhagusa and Spallatta, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>THE Trade of Sclavonia is at this day but of small Account, and little to our Mation: the two Cities of Spalatta and Rhagusa seated therein, merit the principal consideration. * 1.1Rhagusa then, formerly called Epidaurus, being situated on the Adriatick Sea, a Commonwealth of great Traffick and Riches, w...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:29, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Revel (Created page with " ==Sources from old books== === 1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXVIII. Of Revel, and the Trade thereof. === <blockquote>Revel is nothing inferiour for Trade to Rhiga, situated on the North of the Bal•… Seas, famoused in these Northern Countries for the safety and commodiousness of the Haven: it is well stored of Merchants that frequent the place for the Traffick of the Commodities thereof, nominated in the aforegoing Chapter. The Inha...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:16, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Puglia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>PVGLIA PIANA, TERRA DI BARRI, TERRA DI Otranto, Calabria, and Basilicata. (Book Puglia) The other part of the Kingdome of NAPLES. (Book Puglia) NOw we must view the other part...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:14, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Prussia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>BORVSSIA, OR PRVSSIA. (Book Prussia) BORVSSIA being the farthest coast of Germany, taketh its name from the people called Borussians, as Erasmus Stella witnesseth. These, as Pt...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:13, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Provence (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>PROVINCIA, OR PROVENCE. (Book Provence) HItherto wee have described Aquitania and the Kingdome of Arelatum: Provincia followeth.* 1.1 This most excellent part of France from be...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:12, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Portugal (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>PORTVGALL AND ALGARBIA. (Book Portugal) HItherto wee have described Spaine in generall, now our Method requireth that wee should decipher it in particular and by parts. Wee sai...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:11, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Poland (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>POLAND was so called from the Planesse of the Country, which they themselves call Pole. It is a very great Country: on the North side it hath Borussia and Pomerania, on the East...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:09, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Pictavia (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THE COVNTY OF PICTAVIA. (Book Pictavia) PICTONIUM, or Pictavia▪ which followes▪ com¦monly called Poict•u,* 1.1 looketh Southward toward th• Engolismes and Santonians,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:08, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Picardie (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>PICARDIE AND CAMPANIA. (Book Picardie) ALthough the name of Picardie is not very ancient, yet no certaine reason can be rendred for it:* 1.1 some conjecturing one thing, some a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:06, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Philippinae (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>South of Japan, lieth a great frie of Islands which are now called PHILIPPINAE in honor of Philip the second, King of Spain, in whose time discovered by Legaspi a Spanish Captain, 〈◊〉 1564. St...") Tag: Visual edit
• 19:58, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Peru (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>PERUVIA is the noblest Country of all the New World, it is now devided into three parts, namely, the Plaine, the Mountaines, and the Andes. The Plaine of Peruvia reacheth 500. l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 19:55, 21 December 2024 Admin talk contribs created page Pertica (Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. === <blockquote>THE COVNTY OF PERTICA. (Book Pertica) THE Country of Pertica confineth on the Carnutensians, and dependeth also on their diocesse, and hath beene a long time a famous County. F...") Tag: Visual edit