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- 20:33, 23 April 2026 Piacenza, City (hist | edit) [3,603 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Piacenza, Placentia, a City of Lombardy, of great Antiquity; called by the French Plaisance. It is a Bishops See, under the Archbishop of Bologna; and the Capital of a Dukedom of the same name, which ever since 1557. has been in the Hands of the Dukes of Parma. It is a neat, populous City; said to have twenty five thousand Citizens within its Walls, and to be f...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:27, 23 April 2026 Antwerp, City (hist | edit) [1,026 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Antwerp, Anversa, called by the French, Anvers; by the Germans, Antorf, is a City of the Low Countries in the Dukedom of Brabant, upon the River Scheld. It is a large and beautiful City, and was about 100 years since, the most populous and best traded City in all those Provinces; and in 1559. was made a Bishops See, by Paul IV. In 1569. the Duke de Alva...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:24, 23 April 2026 Warsaw (hist | edit) [888 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Warsaw, VVarsovia, the Capital City of the Kingdom of Poland: called by the Poles VVarswa, by the Germans Warschaw, by the French Varsovie. It is the chief City of Mazovia; upon the Vistula. Twenty four Miles from Lenczycze, or Lanschet, thirty three from Gnesna, and fifty from Lemburg. Taken by the Swedes in the year 1665. after a great Victory; the year follo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:22, 23 April 2026 Utrecht, City (hist | edit) [3,164 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Utrecht, Antonia, Trajectum Inferius, Ʋtricesium, Ʋltrajectum, Antonina Civitas, Civitas Ʋtricensium, a great, strong, populous City in the Ʋnited Netherlands; the Capital of one of their seven States. It stands upon the North Branch of the Rhine; at the distance of about 5 English Miles to the North; but united to it by a Navigable Channel. Twenty three Le...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:18, 23 April 2026 Rhein, River (hist | edit) [2,442 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rheine, Rhenus, a vast River in Germany, which is one of the greatest in Europe. Called by the Germans, das Rhyn; by the French, le Rheine; by the Poles, Rhen; and by the Spaniard, Rhin. Next the Danube, the greatest River in Germany. It springeth out of the Alpes in the Western Borders of Switzerland, and the Northern of the Grisons, (near the Fountain...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:16, 23 April 2026 Rezan (hist | edit) [442 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rezan, the Capital City of a Dukedom in Moscovy; which was heretofore a Sovereign Principality of great extent. It stands thirty six Miles from Mosco to the South-East, and twelve from the Fountains of the Tanais arising within this Dukedom. It is an Episcopal City. Olearius.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit