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22 December 2024
- 00:5900:59, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,750 N Artesia 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 COVNTIE OF ARTESIA. (Book Artesia) ARtesia, containeth a great part of those people which Caesar calleth the Atrebatians, from the chiefe Cittie which he calleth Atrebatum. Bu..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5800:58, 22 December 2024 diff hist +4,252 N Trans-Isselania 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 LORDSHIP OF TRANS-ISSELANIA. (Book Trans-Isselania) THe Trans-Issilanians doe inhabite that part which was the Seate of the auncient Frenchmen; which the most learned Hadrian..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5600:56, 22 December 2024 diff hist +4,293 N Groninga 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 LORDSHIP OF GRONINGA. (Book Groninga) GROENINGA Domin̄i (Book Groninga) GRoninga is the head Cittie of the Province of Groninga, and the fairest Cittie in Friesland. Some th..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5200:52, 22 December 2024 diff hist +3,199 N Machlin 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 CITTIE AND PROVINCE OF MACHLIN. (Book Machlin) MAchlin is situated almost in the middle of Brabant, and is as it were enclosed within it, neere the River Dilia, which cutteth..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5100:51, 22 December 2024 diff hist +12,006 N Ultrajectum 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 BISHOPRICK OF VLTRAIECTVM. (Book Ultrajectum) OLd Batavia was governed by Kings of their owne, but the royall line being extinct, it was divided into parts. The inhabitants of..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4900:49, 22 December 2024 diff hist +3,712 N Zutphania 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 COVNTIE OF ZVTPHANIA. (Book Zutphania) SOme suppose that the Zutphanians were herefore called by the Romanes Vsipetes, which Iunius conjectureth in his Batavia. But Bertius th..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4800:48, 22 December 2024 diff hist +11,108 N Gelderland 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 GELDERLAND, Containing the Countie of ZVTPHANIA, and the Lordship of TRANSISILANIA. (Book Gelderland) * 1.1GElderland was so called from the Castell of Gelre, whic..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4700:47, 22 December 2024 diff hist +11,630 N Zeland 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 COVNTIE OF ZELAND. (Book Zeland) ZEland signifies nothing else but a Sea-land, the name thereof being compounded from Sea and Land.* 1.1 For it is encompassed on every side wi..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4400:44, 22 December 2024 diff hist −75 Holland No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:4300:43, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,513 N Holland 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 COVNTIE OF HOLLAND. (Book Holland) SOme derive the name of Holland from the many Woods and Forrests therein,* 1.1 for we cal a Wood Holt or Hout, and Hollant signifies a woody..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:3600:36, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,845 N Brabant 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 BRABANT. (Book Brabant) BRabant for the most part doth containe the Countrie of the Advatians, Ambivaritians, and Tungrians:* 1.1 but it is uncertaine at what time..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:3400:34, 22 December 2024 diff hist −99 Flanders No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 00:3400:34, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,084 Flanders →1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. Tag: Visual edit
- 00:3300:33, 22 December 2024 diff hist +12,183 N Flanders 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 COVNTIE OF FLANDERS. (Book Flanders) FLanders although it be not of any great antiquitie, yet no reason can be given for the name of it.* 1.1 Some derive it from a Cittie of t..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:1300:13, 22 December 2024 diff hist +34 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 00:1200:12, 22 December 2024 diff hist +11,879 N Zurichgow 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>ZVRICHGOVV, AND THE PROVINCE OF BASIL. (Book Zurichgow) IHave spoken in generall concerning Helvetia; the parts doe follow. Which Mercator in the three following Chartes doth l..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:1000:10, 22 December 2024 diff hist +8,583 Ceylon →Sources from old books Tag: Visual edit
- 00:1000:10, 22 December 2024 diff hist +13,828 N Zahara Created page with " ==Sources from old books== ===1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome=== <blockquote>ZAHARA, That is, DESART. IN our Africa or Libya Interior, we have placed ZAHARA, the Country of the NEGROES and GƲINY. Zahara is an Arab name, and signifies Desart; and this name is taken from the quality of the Country: so the Arabs divide the Land into three sorts, Cehel, Zahara, and Azgar. Cehel hath only Sand, very small, without any Green. Zahara hath Gravel..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0900:09, 22 December 2024 diff hist +37,236 N Zagathay 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>ZAGATHAY is bounded on the East, with the Mountain Imaus, by which it is parted from Cathay; on the North, with the main Scythick or Frozen Ocean; on the West, with Tartaria Deserta, from which sepa..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0800:08, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,371 N Wiflispurgergow 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>VVIFLISPVRGERGOVV. (Book Wiflispurgergow) THERE followes in our Author the Aventian Canton• commonly called Wiflispurgergow. It is so named from the Towne Wiflispurg, which h..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0700:07, 22 December 2024 diff hist +11,475 N Virginia 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>VIRGINIA AND FLORIDA. (Book Virginia) * 1.1VIRGINIA and Florida doe follow in our method. Virginia as some suppose was so called from the Earle Viguinus, but hee that sett fort..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0500:05, 22 December 2024 diff hist +2,785 N Vicentia 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 Country of Vicentia followeth, the soyle whereof as it is pleasant, so it is fruitfull, yeelding greate store of Wine, and other fruites, especially Mulberries, on whose lea..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0500:05, 22 December 2024 diff hist +3,564 N Verona 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>IN this Table the Territories of three chiefe Citties of Marca Tarvisina are delineated and described, Verona, Vicentia, and Patavium. The first is the Territory or Country of V..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0400:04, 22 December 2024 diff hist −45 Valesia No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0400:04, 22 December 2024 diff hist +5,990 N Valesia 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>VALESIA. (Book Valesia) I Have not yet found whence the name of Valesia is derived, which they call Wallis, or Walisser Landt. But it is supposed that it commeth from the Latin..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0300:03, 22 December 2024 diff hist +12,405 N Valentia 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>VALENTIA taketh its name from the Metropolis thereof, being a faire Mart-Towne, and of great antiquitie: On the South it looketh toward Murcia: on the West toward both the Casti..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0200:02, 22 December 2024 diff hist +1,659 N Valachia 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>VALACHIA was so called from the Flaccians, a Nation of the Romanes. For the Romanes having overcome the Getes, brought thither a Colonie under the conduct of one Flaccus, whence..." Tag: Visual edit
- 00:0100:01, 22 December 2024 diff hist +10,729 N Tuscia 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>TUSCIA followeth, which ancient Writers doe cele∣brate by three speciall names, Tyrrhenia, Etruria, and Tuscia: the latter of these three names it still retaineth. For it is comm..." Tag: Visual edit
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- 23:5923:59, 21 December 2024 diff hist +4,487 N Turone 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 TVRONE. (Book Turone) THE Province of Turene in regard of the incomparable pleasantnesse of the place, and the abundance of all kind of fruites, is worthily cal..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5823:58, 21 December 2024 diff hist −10 The Turkish Empire No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5723:57, 21 December 2024 diff hist +138,125 N The Turkish Empire 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>IN Asia, unto which we now are come, the Turkish Empire hath the first place. Mela in his first Booke maketh mention of the Turkes,* 1.1 and so doth Pliny, Lib. 6. Cap. 7. And it i..." Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5623:56, 21 December 2024 diff hist −186 Tunis No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5623:56, 21 December 2024 diff hist +39,498 N Tunis 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>THe Kingdom of TVNIS (in Latine called Regnum Tunctanum) hath on the East Cyrene, on the West the Kingdom of Algeirs or Tremesin, on the North the Mediterranean, on the South Mount Atlas. So called..." Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5423:54, 21 December 2024 diff hist +4,361 N Tripoli, Africa Created page with " ==Etymology and other names== ==History== ==Geography== ==Demographics== ==Economy== ==Culture== ==Government== ==Military== ==Education== ==Transportation== ==Notable People== ==Sources from old books== === 1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome. === <blockquote>THE Kingdom of TRIPOLI takes up the just moiety of the Coast of Barbary from Capes unto Egypt, and divides it self into two prin∣cipal parts or Provinces, which bear likewise the Title..." Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5423:54, 21 December 2024 diff hist +12,518 N 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
- 23:5323:53, 21 December 2024 diff hist +10,921 N 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
- 23:5123:51, 21 December 2024 diff hist +479 N 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 23:5023:50, 21 December 2024 diff hist +3,800 The Isles of the Moluccoes No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 23:4823:48, 21 December 2024 diff hist +23,171 N 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
- 23:4623:46, 21 December 2024 diff hist +12,789 N 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
- 23:4523:45, 21 December 2024 diff hist +1,200 N 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 23:4323:43, 21 December 2024 diff hist +12,601 N 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 23:4323:43, 21 December 2024 diff hist −600 The Isles of Africa No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 23:4223:42, 21 December 2024 diff hist +3,003 N 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
- 23:4123:41, 21 December 2024 diff hist +72,960 N 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
- 23:3923:39, 21 December 2024 diff hist +13,246 N 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
- 23:3723:37, 21 December 2024 diff hist +21 Annobon No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 23:3623:36, 21 December 2024 diff hist +1,748 N 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
- 23:3423:34, 21 December 2024 diff hist +13,672 N 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
- 23:3323:33, 21 December 2024 diff hist +11,215 Tartaria Precopensis No edit summary Tag: Visual edit