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• 00:08, 25 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Albania, Caspian Sea Region (Created page with "=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. === <blockquote>Albania, so call'd from the colour of the People, a Region of Asia lying upon the Caspian Sea to the East, bordering upon Iberia to the West, and Atropatia to the South. The greatest part of it is bounded Westward by Zuria and Chimithe, and Northward by Litrachan. The chiefest Cities of it are Albana, and Osica. Isiganus of Nicea reports, that in Albania there ar...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:04, 25 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Agra, City (Created page with "=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. === <blockquote>Agra, The Capital City of a Province of the same Name, in the Empire of the Great Mogul in the Indies, on this side the Ganges; it was the place where the Emperor kept his Court, till Chagehan built the City of Gehan-Abad where he now resides, by reason the Climate is more temperate. Agra is the largest City of India, wher...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:56, 24 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Arequipa (Created page with "=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. === <blockquote>Arequipa, a City of Peru in South America, 26 Leagues from Lima, 70 from Casco, and 7 from the South Sea. The Spaniards report, that in the Reign of the I•cas they would convey Fish from Arequipa to Cas•o in a very short time, the Indians being laid upon the Road at such distances to hand them from one to the other. It is one of the most considerable Cities of Pe...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:48, 24 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Angola (Created page with "=== 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. === <blockquote>Angola, a Kingdom in Africa, to the South of Congo; This Kingdom is reckon'd to comprehend eight Principal Provinces, every one of which is divided into small Seigniories. The Provinces are Lovanda, Sinso, Ilamba, Icollo, Onsaca, Massingan, Cambamba and Embacca: The Country is become very fruitful by good Manuring; and the Lands of Lovanda, which were barren, are made fe...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:02, 24 October 2025 Admin talk contribs deleted page Arch-Angel, City (content was: "<blockquote></blockquote>", and the only contributor was "Admin" (talk))
• 03:50, 24 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Source:MoreriA (Created page with "(BOOK A) A, Is the first Letter of the Alphabet in all the known Languages of the World, except in that of the Aethiopians, where according to Ludolphus's Grammar, it is the 13th. The pronunciation of it is free and open, though some Nations, and particularly the English, vary in the sounding it sometimes open, sometimes close, as in the Words all and take. Christ in a mystical sence compares himself to the Alpha and Omega of the Greeks, to signifie that he was the begi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:48, 24 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Source:MoreriT (Created page with "T. (BOOK T) T. THIS Letter is sometimes put for s, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pultare for pulsare; and sometimes for d, as Alexanter for Alexander. In English, when joyn'd to h it has sometimes the Sound of a d, as in the Words the, this, that, which comes from the Dutch, de, dis, dat. The Romans us'd it to signifie that the Tribunes had approved what was mark'd with it. Lucian says, that it was a Mark put upon Robbers because it re...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:13, 23 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Petra (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Petra, or Petra Deserti, Cyriacopolis, Mons Regalis, a City of the Stony Arabia; which was of old the Capital of the Kingdom of Ammon, and called Rabbah. Taken by King David, in revenge of the Injuries offered to his Embassadours. In the times of Christianity, it became an Archbishops See under the Patriarch of Jerusalem: at this day called by the Arabians, Kra...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:09, 23 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Gago (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Gago, Gagum, a Kingdom in Nigritia, in Africa, which has a City of the same Name, upon a River falling into the Niger below Tocrut. Great, but thinly inhabited. This Kingdom lies between the Niger to the North, and Guinea to the South; rich in Mines of Gold, according to some Relations; possessed also by a Prince, who is Sovereign of the Kingdom of Tombuti.</bl...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:08, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Source:Eliot (Created page with "A. ante B. ASygnifieth of, or from. Ab, and Abs, be of the same sygnification, only A, goth before a worde, which begynneth with a cōsonāt: ab and abs goth before a word that doth begyn with a vowell. Abatis, two wordes made of the preposi∣tion, a, & the ablatiue case plurell of Batus, whiche in englysshe is a measure, signifieth an officer, that hath the orderyng of mea∣sures,* 1.1 as a clerke of the markette, Abaccidentibus, an officer, vnto whome it belōgeth to...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:02, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Bilbao (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Bilbao the chief City of Biscay in Spain, call'd by the Romans Flaviobriga; seated upon the River Nervio, 2 Leagues from the Cantabrian Ocean; a large, beautiful, well traded City; from S. Andreo 13 Miles to the North-East, and 24 from Bayonne to the South. Joannes Mariana is of opinion, that Bilbao is of a later Origine, and saith it was built by Didacus L...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:57, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Sissopoli (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Apollonia Magna, Anthium, now call'd Sissopoli, is a City in a small Island in the Euxine Sea, near Thrace. Heretofore a Colony of the Milesians, and had a Temple to Apollo in it.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 05:11, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Bochar (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Bochar, or Buchar, Bochora and Buchara, an antient and a stately City of Asia, in the Province of Mawaralnahra, call'd by the Romans Trans Oxiana Regio, a days Journey beyond the River Oxus; this City was the Birth-place of Avicenna, the famous Arabian Physician and Philosopher, who flourish'd in Spain, in the X. Century. He is said to have been the first that...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:55, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Caspian Sea (Created page with " === 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>The. Hyreanian Sea, Mare Hyrcanium, takes this ancient well known Name from this Province: but it is no less frequently called, both in Ancient and Modern Geographers and Historians, the Caspian Sea. This Sea is called by various Names according to the Countries which do border upon it. It was anciently called the Sea of Chosar, from the eldest Son of Th•gar...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:51, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Gilan, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Gilan, Gelae, Gilania, a Province of Persia, upon the South side of the Caspian Sea, which from it is often called the Sea of Gilan. The chief City of this Province is Gilan, and stands upon the River Abisirni, twenty five German Miles from the Caspian Sea: in Long. 90. 13. and Lat. 40. ''//Paris Meridian was used in the book''</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:47, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Derbent (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Derbent, Caucasie Portae, Porta ferrea, Alexandria, a City of Persia upon the Caspian Sea, between the Foot of Mount Caucasus and that Sea; on the Borders of Georgia, near the River Korr: called by Turks Demir, or Temir Capi; that is, the Iron Gate: not that there is any Iron Gate, but by reason of the Strength and Fortifications of this City; which are such as...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:45, 18 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Bachu, city on the Caspian Sea (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Bachu, a City of Albania upon the Caspian Sea; in the times of the Roman Empire it is supposed to have been called Albana; but there is some Controversie about it. From this City the Caspian Sea is called by some Mar di Bachu. § And there is also another City in Arabia Felix called by the same name in Ptolemy.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:42, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Wologda, Province (Created page with "=== 1698. The antient and present state of Muscovy by Jodocus Crull. === <blockquote>The Province of Wologda, which sometime belonged to the Dukes of Novogorod, is since reunited to the Crown of Muscovy; its Capital City has the same Name with the Province, both of them having borrowed their Names from the River Vologda, which having its rise near the famous City of Novogorod Veliki, disembogues in the Baltick Sea. The City of Wologda, or Vologda, is one of the most cons...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:41, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Pleskou, Province (Created page with "=== 1698. The antient and present state of Muscovy by Jodocus Crull. === <blockquote>The next considerable in Rank, tho' not in Order, of these Northern Provinces, is the Dukedom of Pleskou, having taken its Name from its Capital City called Pleskou; The Muscovites call it Pskou, from a Lake about two or three Miles distant from it, from whence arises a River of the same name, which runs by the City, and has communicated its Name not only to this City, but the whole Prov...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:39, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Archangel, City (Created page with "=== 1698. The antient and present state of Muscovy by Jodocus Crull. === <blockquote>The City of Archangel, or St. Michael Archan••• an Archbishop's Seat, and now the Capital of 〈◊〉 Province, is situated at the Mouth of the River Duina on the left side as you enter it from the White Sea, where it makes the Island of Podesemski. 〈◊〉none of the largest, but withal so populous, that no other place in whole Muscovy is comparable to it, by r...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:38, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Dwina, Province (Created page with "=== 1698. The antient and present state of Muscovy by Jodocus Crull. === <blockquote>The Second in Order of the great Northern Provinces belonging to Muscovy, is the Province of Dwina, having derived its Name from the River Duina, which having its rise at the conflux of the Rivers of Jagel and Sachona, falls into the White Sea near the City of Archangel. This Province being the greatest and most Northern on the Swedi•• side of Muscovy,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:32, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Obdora, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Obdora, a Province in the North of Moscovy, on the Frozen Sea; between the River Oby to the East, and Petzora to the West. There is never a City or Town of Note in it. The Dutch who have lately discovered its Sea Coasts, have presumed to call it Niew West Frieslandt: but they have not settled any Colonies here, and probably never will.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:30, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Perm, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Permaweliky, Permia Magna, a City in the Province of Permsky in Russia; between the Dwina to the West, and the Obb to the East; seated upon the River Kama.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:29, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Permia, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Permie, or Permsky, a Principality in the Empire of Moscovia; very marshy and uncultivated; inhabited by a Salvage People with some few Christians, to whom about 1550. Duke John Basilowitz granted a Bishop, since changed into an Archbishop residing at Wologda, and taking his Title from Perm or Prems, the capital City of Permsky.</b...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:26, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Wolga, River (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rha. See Wolga.</blockquote><blockquote>Uolga. See Wolga.</blockquote><blockquote>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. Th...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:18, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Allatur (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Allatur, a Town in the Kingdom of Cazan in Moscovy upon the River Cama.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:13, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Arch-Angel, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Arch-Angel, is a very famous Sea-Port in the North of Muscovy, in the Province of Dwina, upon the River Dwin; which near this place is divided into two Branches, making the Island of Podesmeske, and then falling into the White-Sea, 6 German Miles beneath this City. The passage by Sea to this City was first sound out by one Richard Chandler, an English-man, in t...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:11, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Ararat, Mountain (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Ararat, Arat, by the Armenians call'd Mesesousar, or the Mountain of the Ark, by the Persians Agri; is a part of the Caspian Mountains near Erivan in Armenia, and the most renowned of all others, for sustaining the Ark of Noah, after the Universal Deluge. It exceeds in height Caucasus and Taurus, carrying its head into the temperate Region, whilst some of the l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:09, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Antiochia, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Antioch, Antiochia, call'd by the Turks Antachia; by the Arabians, Anthakia. It was built by Seleucus, the Son of Antiochus King of Syria, one of the Successors of Alexander the Great, and call'd after his Fathers Name. This City was, during the times the Greeks and Romans were possessed of it, the Capital of Syria, or rather of the East; here the Disciples...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:04, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Dwina, River (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Dwina, Duna, Dzwina, a vast River in Muscovy or Russia, which riseth in the Province of Megrina, from two several Heads that unite at VVologda, one of the principal Cities of Russia; and running North-East, passeth by the Lake of Soeclina, beneath which, it receiveth from the East the River Juga; and a little lower the River VVuyma; then turning North-East,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:02, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Cargapol, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Cargapol, a City of Russia upon the River Onega, or Poroga, almost 200 Russian Miles from Archangel to the South-West. This City gives name to a Province on the White Sea.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 21:00, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs deleted page Kiovia, City (content was: "=== 1692. The gazetteer's, or, Newsman's interpreter by Laurence Echard. === <blockquote>Kiow, or Ki•f, a great and famous (but now declining) City and Castle of Poland, the M. of the Pr. of Vkrane; a B. un. the A. of Lemburg, sub. to the Russians. It stands on the R. Nieper, 240 m. N.E. of Kaminieck, 430 E. of Warsaw, and 500 E. of Cracow. Lon. 53.20. Lat. 50.42.</blockquote>", and the only contributor was "Admin" (talk))
• 20:59, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Kiovia, City (Created page with "=== 1692. The gazetteer's, or, Newsman's interpreter by Laurence Echard. === <blockquote>Kiow, or Ki•f, a great and famous (but now declining) City and Castle of Poland, the M. of the Pr. of Vkrane; a B. un. the A. of Lemburg, sub. to the Russians. It stands on the R. Nieper, 240 m. N.E. of Kaminieck, 430 E. of Warsaw, and 500 E. of Cracow. Lon. 53.20. Lat. 50.42.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:55, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Smolensko, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Smolensko, Smolentum, one of the principal Cities of Poland, and the Capital of a Palatinate. It stands upon the Borysthenes in White Russia in Lithuania, near the Borders of Muscovy. Great and very strong, surrounded by a Wall eight Cubits broad at the top, strengthened by fifty two great Towers, and a very strong Castle. It contains about eight thousand House...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:52, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Sarmatia (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Sarmatia, and Sauromatia. This vast Region, in ancient Geography, was divided into Sarmatia Asiatica, Europaea, and Germanica. Sarmatia Asiatica, lay properly towards the Borders of Europe and Asia; with the Northern Ocean to the North, the Pontus Euxinus to the South, Scythia to the East, and Sarmatia Europaea to the West: now contained in the Northern Russi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:48, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Novogrod Sewarski, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Novogrodeck Seviersky, a strong City of Russia; which has been attributed to Lithuania, when under the Poles; but now it is under the Russ again. It stands upon the River Dezna; seventeen Polish Miles from Czernichou to the North-East, forty six from Kiovia to the same, and the same distance from Smolensko to the South. This is also the Capital...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:46, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Morduates, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>The Morduates, a Province in the North-Eastern Parts of the Empire of Russia, towards the River Rha; between the Czeremisses to the East, and Wolodimera to the West. It is a Country of great Extent; and made terrible by its vast unpassable Woods and Forests</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:43, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Jaroslaw, City in Russia (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Iaroslaw, a great City in Muscovy, which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name, and has in it a Timber Castle; it is seated upon the Wolga, thirty German Miles South of Wolgda, thirty seven North of Moscho. The Dukedom of Jaroslaw is very great; and lies between that of Wologda to the North, Rostow to the South, and the River Wolga to the East. Governed...") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:17, 4 October 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Coordinates:Claudii Ptolemaei geographicae enarrationis libri octo 1525 (Created page with " === '''Graph. Petri Apiani — On the Abacus, or a Particular Description of the World''' === '''Chapter V.''' Here follows a particular enumeration of the Regions, Provinces, Kingdoms, Duchies, Marquisates, Counties, Cities, Bishoprics, Mountains, Rivers, Fountains, Lakes, Islands, and Peninsulas of the known world — Europe, Africa, Asia, and America — together with their longitudes and latitudes according to Ptolemy and other cosmographers, as well as some additi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:16, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Precop, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Precop, Pericop, Procopias, Procopiana, Taurica Chersonesus, Tartaria Precopensis, Taphrae, a City, and strong Fort in the enterance of the Neck of Crim Tartary: from whence that Peninsula is sometimes called Precopska: and the Tartarian Inhabitants, the Precopensian Tartars. After the Muscovites obtained that great Victory over the Tar...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:15, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Podolia (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Podolia, Bodeni, Budini, Patzinacae Populi, a Province of the Kingdom of Poland; comprehended under the Red Russia, of which it is a part; and subject to a Palatine of its own. Bounded on the North by Volhinia, on the East by the Palatinate of Braslaw, on the South by Wallachia, and on the West by Russia (properly so called), or the Black R...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:12, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Peking, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Peking, Pechinum, the principal Province in the Kingdom of China. Bounded on the East by Leaotum, and Xantum; on the North by Tartary, and the great Wall; on the West by Xansi, and on the South by Honan. The principal City is Peking, Pechinum.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:10, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Oczakow (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>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.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:08, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Nanquin, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>The Province of Nanquin, (which was once the greatest in this Kingdom) is bounded on the North by Xantum; on the West by Honan and Huquam; on the South by Chekiam; and on the East by the Chinian Ocean. It contains fourteen great, and an hundred and ten small Cities; one hundred ninety six thousand eight hundred and sixteen Families: Being divided into...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:07, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Nanquin, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Nanquin, a great City in the Kingdom of China, upon a Bay, and in a Province of the same name; once the Capital of this Kingdom, and the Seat of the Court, and now vastly great and populous: But its Palace Royal was ruined by the Tartars: One of the most celebrated Ports in the East.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:04, 28 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Crim, City (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Krim, or Krimenda, Crimaea, a City of the Lesser Tartary, in the Taurick Chersonese, in the Euxine Sea. It stands towards the middle of this Chersonese; between Precop to the North, and Caffa to the South. Very small, and almost reduced to the meanness of a Village; though it gives Name to the whole Nation in which it stands; and is the usual Seat of the Cham....") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:57, 27 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Achbaluck (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Achbaluck, a City of the Asiatick Tartary, in the Province of Tainfeu, not far from Cambalu, and built upon a Lake. The same with Achatbaluc.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:56, 27 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Euxine Sea (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>The Euxine Sea, Pontus Euxinus, Axenos, now by the Turks called Cara Denguis, i. e. the Furious Sea, and by others the Black Sea; is encompassed round by Anatolia, Mingrelia, Circassia, the Crim Tartary, and Podolia; with no other out-let than the Bosphorus Thracius, accounting the Palus Moeotis as a Bay or branch of it:...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:51, 27 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Source:Brand (Created page with "A journal of the embassy from their Majesties John and Peter Alexievitz, emperors of Muscovy &c. over land into China through the provinces of Ustiugha, Siberia, Dauri, and the great Tartary to Peking the capital city of the Chinese empire by Everard Isbrand, their ambassador in the years 1693, 1694, and 1695 written by Adam Brand, secretary of the embassy ; translated from the original High-Dutch printed in Hamburgh, 1698 ; to which is added Curious observations concern...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:49, 27 September 2025 Admin talk contribs created page Condora, Province (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Condore, Condora, a Province in Russia, towards Tartaria deserta, in the North-East part of that Kingdom; bordering North upon the White Sea, East upon Obdora and Sibiria, South upon Permia, and West upon the Province of Arch-Angel: extreamly cold, and but thinly inhabited, without Town or City of Note in it. The best an...") Tag: Visual edit