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- 21:38, 4 October 2025 Dwina, Province (hist | edit) [946 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Obdora, Province (hist | edit) [473 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Perm, City (hist | edit) [322 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Permia, Province (hist | edit) [1,631 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Wolga, River (hist | edit) [1,064 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Allatur (hist | edit) [207 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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
- 21:11, 4 October 2025 Ararat, Mountain (hist | edit) [977 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Antiochia, City (hist | edit) [6,584 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Dwina, River (hist | edit) [1,944 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Cargapol, City (hist | edit) [304 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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
- 20:55, 4 October 2025 Smolensko, City (hist | edit) [1,322 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Sarmatia (hist | edit) [3,251 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Novogrod Sewarski, City (hist | edit) [810 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Morduates, Province (hist | edit) [382 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Jaroslaw, City in Russia (hist | edit) [700 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Coordinates:Claudii Ptolemaei geographicae enarrationis libri octo 1525 (hist | edit) [10,214 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Precop, City (hist | edit) [1,040 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Podolia (hist | edit) [1,461 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Peking, Province (hist | edit) [1,525 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Oczakow (hist | edit) [1,373 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Nanquin, Province (hist | edit) [567 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Nanquin, City (hist | edit) [413 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Crim, City (hist | edit) [815 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Achbaluck (hist | edit) [270 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Euxine Sea (hist | edit) [1,105 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Source:Brand (hist | edit) [143,306 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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 Condora, Province (hist | edit) [520 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (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
- 23:44, 27 September 2025 Cazan (hist | edit) [1,137 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Casan, Casana, a very considerable City in Muscovy, upon the River Casanka; in a pleasant Plain, about 10▪ German Miles from the Northern Shoar of the Wolga in Long. 99. 00. Lat. 55. 38. ''//Paris Meridian was used in the book'' Of a considerable bigness, but the Houses are all of Wood, as also the Towers and Ramparts; only the Castle and its Fort...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:34, 27 September 2025 Taurica Chersonesus, Peninsula (hist | edit) [684 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Taurica Chersonesus, the Peninsula dividing Europe and Asia; upon Il Mare Maggiore, and the Sea of Zabache: from East to West twenty four Miles long, fifteen broad; filled heretofore with Noble Greek Cities. Upon the Eastern side of it, stands Caffa, (which was the ancient Theodosia) under the Turks. In the entrance of the Neck of it, Precop; under the...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:33, 27 September 2025 Tartar, River (hist | edit) [442 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Tartar, Occhardus, a River of Serica, (a part of the Asiatick Tartary) from which that Nation took its name of Tartaria. The Country is bounded on the West by Mount Imaus, and on the East by China: now thought to be called Suchur. There is a City upon it, of the same name.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:31, 27 September 2025 Sofala (hist | edit) [1,345 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Sofala, Zofala, a Kingdom in the Lower Aethiopia in Africa, in the Country of Cafraria; towards the Ethiopick Ocean; in an Island in the Mouth of the River Zambez, in the Borders of Zanguebaria; which takes its name from Sofala, a strong City under the Portuguese; one hundred and fifty Miles from Zanguebar, and three hundred and forty from Mosambique. Fifty Mil...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:30, 27 September 2025 Sophia (hist | edit) [950 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Sofia, Sophia, the Capital City of Bulgaria, called by the Turks Triadizza; which is an Archbishops See, anciently called Sardica; seated upon the River Boiana; at an equal distance from the Borders of Thrace East, Servia West, and Macedonia South; being now a great populous City, and the Seat of the Turkish Governour: but it has no Walls, nor other Fortificati...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:29, 27 September 2025 Sogdiana, Region (hist | edit) [881 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Sogdiana, a large Region of the ancient Asia: betwixt the Two Scythia's, Margiana, Bactriana, and the Caspian Sea: now answering to the Province of Mawralnaher, or Maurenhaer in the Asiatick Tartary; North-East of Persia.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:25, 27 September 2025 Serica, Region (hist | edit) [1,992 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Serica, a great Region of the ancient Asia; betwixt China to the East, and the Mountain Imaus to the West: famous heretofore for Manufactures in Silk. Its Cities were Issedon, Serica, Ottorocorra, Piada, &c. The Inhabitants are known in Antiquity by the name of Seres. This Country at present lies contained in the Kingdoms of Niuche, Tangut, &...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:18, 27 September 2025 Scythia (hist | edit) [7,542 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Scythia, The vast Region anciently understood by this name, was divided into Scythia Europaea, and Asiatica. 1. Scythia Europaea was the Country of the Nomades, Basilidae, &c. lying along the Borysthenes towards the Euxine Sea, and the Palus Maeotis making on that side a part of Sarmatia Europaea; and now contained properly in the Lesser Tartary. But besides th...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:13, 27 September 2025 Samaria, City (hist | edit) [12,475 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Samaria, a City of Palestine, mentioned by Ptolemy and Strabo, as well as by the Sacred Writers. It was seated upon a Mountain in the Tribe of Ephraim; built by Omri King of Israel, as is recorded 1 Kings 16. (about the year of the World 3112, or as others 3•19.) and becoming from thenceforward the Royal City of that Kingdom, it became one of t...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:08, 27 September 2025 Samarchand (hist | edit) [1,678 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Samarchand, Samarchanda, Marchanda, a vast City in the Asiatick Tartary; one hundred Miles beyond the River Oxus; the Capital of that Kingdom, and the Royal City of that great Prince Tamberlaine, who stiled himself Flagellum Dei, the Scourge of God: who about the year 1402, took Bajazet the Emperor of the Turks his Prisoner, and died in the year 1406. This Prin...") Tag: Visual edit
- 23:05, 27 September 2025 Edessa (hist | edit) [1,168 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rhoa, Edessa, a City of Mesopotamia, mentioned by all the ancient Geographers; famous for the Story of King Abgarus: very great, and an Archbishops See, under the Patriarch of Antioch. It has had anciently many other Names; at this day it is the Capital of Diarbeck, (or Mesopotamia) under the Turk. It stands in the middle between Aleppo to the West, and Ami...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:55, 27 September 2025 Usbeck (hist | edit) [184 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Usbeck, the same with Zagathay in Tartary.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:52, 27 September 2025 Thibet (hist | edit) [471 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Thibet, Thibetum, a Kingdom in the Asiatick Tartary; between Tartary, (properly so called,) and the Desart Tartary to the North, Indosthan to the South, Tangut to the East, and Mawaralnatharia to the West. Of which there is little known but the Name. Some make it the same with, others a part of, Turquestan.</blockquote>") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:31, 27 September 2025 Rostow (hist | edit) [614 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rostow, Rostovia, a great City in Russia; which is the Capital of a Dukedom of the same Name, and an Archbishops See. It stands upon the River Cotorea, having a Fortress of Wood: twenty six Miles from the Wolga to the South, and thirty four from Mosco to the West. The Dukes of this Province were next Novograd in the greatest Esteem of any in this Kingdom; till...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:28, 27 September 2025 Rome (hist | edit) [13,030 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Rome, Roma, the Capital City of Italy, once the Sovereign and Mistriss of the whole World; the more immediate Capital now of Campagna di Roma. The Emperour Commodus desired to fasten his own Name upon it, by calling it Commodiana; as a Gothish King, called it Gothia; and other Princes the like: But the Name of Rome still has been always preserved by it. This Ci...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:23, 27 September 2025 Gallipoli, city of Thrace (hist | edit) [1,207 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Gallipoli, Callipolis, a City of Thrace, upon the Bosphorus, called by the Turks Geliboli; which is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Heraclea; and the Seat of the Turkish Admiral, or Captain Bassa of his Gallies. It is great, populous, well traded; and has an Haven, a Castle, and a good Magazine well furnished. This Town stands on the West side of the Hel...") Tag: Visual edit
- 22:21, 27 September 2025 Gallipoli, city in Naples (hist | edit) [689 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Gallipoli, Gallipolis, Anxa, a City of the Kingdom of Naples, in the Terra di Otranto; built on a Rock, upon the Western Shoar, in the Bay of Taranto; thirty six Miles from that City, and in an Island which is only joined to the Continent by a Bridge, supported by huge massy Stones. Small, but well fortified, and populous, with a good Haven, a strong Castle, an...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:27, 13 September 2025 Lignitz (hist | edit) [727 bytes] Admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " === 1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri. === <blockquote>Lignitz, Lat. Lignitia, Lignitium, a City of Silesia, a Province of Bohemia, upon the River Katzbach (Catus) which falls into the Oder, not 2 Miles from Jawer to the N. 5 from Glogaw, and 7 from Wratislaw, or Breslaw. It was heretofore under a Duke of its own, together with a small Territory belonging to it. It is adorned with a noble Castle. The last Duke of Lignit...") Tag: Visual edit