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27 September 2025
- 22:3922:39, 27 September 2025 diff hist +2,255 Savoy →1695. Thesaurus geographicus a new body of geography by Abel Swall and Tim. Child. Tag: Visual edit
- 22:3622:36, 27 September 2025 diff hist +4,265 Russia →1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. Tag: Visual edit
- 22:3122:31, 27 September 2025 diff hist +614 N Rostow 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2922:29, 27 September 2025 diff hist +4 Latium →1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2822:28, 27 September 2025 diff hist +13,030 N Rome 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2522:25, 27 September 2025 diff hist −1,650 Source:Bohun2 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2422:24, 27 September 2025 diff hist +30 Romania →1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2322:23, 27 September 2025 diff hist +1,207 N Gallipoli, city of Thrace 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2222:22, 27 September 2025 diff hist +30 Naples No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:2122:21, 27 September 2025 diff hist +689 N Gallipoli, city in Naples 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 22:1622:16, 27 September 2025 diff hist +10 Pengab, Region No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
13 September 2025
- 15:2915:29, 13 September 2025 diff hist −37 Germany →1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome. current Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2715:27, 13 September 2025 diff hist +727 N Lignitz 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..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 15:2215:22, 13 September 2025 diff hist −101 Mexico →1682. Cosmography and geography in two parts by Richard Blome current Tag: Visual edit
- 15:1915:19, 13 September 2025 diff hist −7 Morea No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
6 September 2025
- 16:2216:22, 6 September 2025 diff hist +17 Galicia No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 16:2116:21, 6 September 2025 diff hist −20 Galicia →1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. Tag: Visual edit
2 September 2025
- 12:2612:26, 2 September 2025 diff hist −44 Denmark No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
15 July 2025
- 03:5603:56, 15 July 2025 diff hist −12,747 Source:Bohun2 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 03:5503:55, 15 July 2025 diff hist −6 Palaestina →1635. Historia mundi: or Mercator's atlas. London. by Gerhard Mercator. current Tag: Visual edit
- 03:5503:55, 15 July 2025 diff hist +3,557 N Gaza Created page with "=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Gazara, Gaza, a City of Palestine in Asia, which belonged anciently to the Tribe of Judah, as appears by the Sacred Scriptures: it was the fifth Satrapy of the Philistines, seated near the Shoars of the Mediterranean Sea, on the Confines of Idumaea, towards Egypt; Conquered by Judah, Judg. 1. 18. but not long enjoyed. Made famous by Samson. Pharaoh, King of Egy..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 03:5303:53, 15 July 2025 diff hist +2,156 Galicia No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
14 June 2025
- 01:3501:35, 14 June 2025 diff hist −56 Russia →1698. The antient and present state of Muscovy by Jodocus Crull. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:3401:34, 14 June 2025 diff hist −952,095 Russia No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
25 May 2025
- 21:1321:13, 25 May 2025 diff hist −148 India →2. PENGAB. current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:1221:12, 25 May 2025 diff hist −36,133 India →8. NARSINGA. Tag: Visual edit
- 21:1221:12, 25 May 2025 diff hist +16,375 Bengala No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:1021:10, 25 May 2025 diff hist +3,657 N Patanaw, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>PATANE or PATANAW, is bounded on the North, with the Realms of 〈◊〉 on the East, with Ganges; on the West, with Oristan; and on the South, with the Kingdome and Gulf of Bengala. So called from Pata•e the chief City of it. There is another Kingdome of th•• name in the further India: but whether it were so called because a Colony of this; or from some resemblances in the nature of the several..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:1021:10, 25 May 2025 diff hist +3,666 N Botanter, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>BOTANTER (under which name I comprehend all those petit Kingdomes which are crowded together in the North and North-East of this part of 〈◊〉) hath on the South, Oristan and 〈◊〉; on the West, the River Guenga or Chaberis, by which parted from the Realms of Sa•g•; on the North, the Zagathaian Tartars, divided from it by some branches of Mount Taurus; on the East, the famous River Ganges...." current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:0921:09, 25 May 2025 diff hist +2,642 N Orixa, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>ORISTAN or ORIXA, is bounded on the South, with Narsinga; on the West, with Delly, and Mandao; on the North, with the Kingdomes of Botanter; on the East, with the Golf of Bengala, and part of Patanaw or Patan•; so called from Orissa, the chief City of it. The Countrey hath plenty of Rice, cloth of Cotton, and a fine stuff like silk, made of grass, and there called Yerva; with which, together with L..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:0621:06, 25 May 2025 diff hist +10,290 N Narsinga, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>NARSINGA is bounded on the South, with Travancor; on the West, with the Mountain Gates; on the North, with Oristan or Orixa; on the East, with the Golf of Bengala. So called from 〈◊〉 the chief City of it, and the Royal residence of the King. The 〈◊〉 is said to be in length 600 miles, or as some say of as much extent as can be travelled in six Months: plentiful in the same commodities whic..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 21:0521:05, 25 May 2025 diff hist −17,046 India →2. PENGAB. Tag: Visual edit
- 21:0321:03, 25 May 2025 diff hist +17,149 N Malabar, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>MALABAR is bounded on the North, with Canara, from which parted by the River Gangeraco; on the East, with the great Mountain Gates, by which divided from the Realm of Narsinga; on the West and South, with the main Ocean. On the Coast whereof it doth extend for the space of 300 miles, that is to say, from the River Gangeraco, to the Cape Comori, which I conceive to be the Commaria Extrema of Ptolomy, t..." Tag: Visual edit
23 May 2025
- 01:1001:10, 23 May 2025 diff hist −32,398 India →1. DVLSINDA. Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0901:09, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,238 N Canara, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>CANARA is bounded on the North, with Decan (where of antiently it was a part) on the South, with Malabar; on the East, with Narsinga, from which separated by the Mountain Gates; on the West, with the Ocean. The reason of the name I find not; nor much worth the searching. The Countrey hath a fair Sea-Coast, with many capacious Harbors to it, which cannot but adde much to the wealth thereof; as liberal..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0901:09, 23 May 2025 diff hist +7,874 N Decan, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>DECAN is bounded on the East, with Narsinga; on the West, with the Indian Ocean; on the North, with Delly and Cambaia; on the South, with Malavar, and Canara. The reason of the name we shall have anon. It lieth along the Sea-coast, for the space of 250 miles, betwixt Aliga, and Bate, two noted Rivers; extending East, as farre as the Mountain Gates, and afterwards thrusting into the North betwixt Camb..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0801:08, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,123 N Sanga, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>SANGA is bounded on the North, with the East parts of the Realm of Agra; on the South and West, with Cambaia; from which parted on the West, by the Mountain Gate; and on the East, with Oristan. The reason of the name I find not: this Country being too far South to be so called from Sangalassa, a Town of chief note neer the fountains of Indus, where placed by Arianus, lib. 5. Places of most importance..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0701:07, 23 May 2025 diff hist +4,540 N Agra, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>THe Realm of AGRA is bounded on the North, with Delly, and Mandao; on the South, with Sang•, and Cambaia; on the West, with Indus, which parteth it from the Province of Sinda, a part of the Kingdome of Cambaia; on the East, with Oristan, or Orixa. So called from Agra the chief City of it, and the Seat Royall, of late times, of the Great Monguls. The Country said to be the best and most pleasant of..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0601:06, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,667 N Delly, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>DELLY is bounded on the West, with Mandao; on the East, with the Kingdome of Botanter; on the North, with the Eastern parts of Pengab; on the South, with the Eastern parts also of the Kingdome of Agra. So named from DELLY the chief City of it, by some called Delin. The Countrey, besides what is common to it with the rest of India, is said to be more abundantly stored than any other part of it with ho..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0501:05, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,729 N Mandao, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>THe Kingdome of MANDAO is bounded on the North, with Pengab; on the South, with the Realm of Agra; on the East, with Delly; and on the West, with the River Indus. So called from Mandao, the chief City of it. The Country more mountainous and rugged than the rest of these Provinces, by reason of the many branches of Mount Bittigo, the Southern part of the Imaus, which do overrun it: in other things par..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0401:04, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,169 N Pengab, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>OPposite to Dulsinda, on the Eastern-side of the River Indus, but more inclining towards the South, lieth the Country, or Division rather, which my Author calleth by the name of PENGAB; bounded on the West, with Indus, which divideth it from Dulsinda; on the South, with the Kingdome of Mandoa; on the North, and East, with those many Kingdomes, which we have comprehended under the name of Botanter. Th..." Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0301:03, 23 May 2025 diff hist +3,855 N Dulsinda, Region Created page with "=== 1652. Cosmographie in four bookes by Peter Heylyn. === <blockquote>DVLSINDA is bounded on the East, with the River Indus; on the West, with Paropamisus, and Arachosia, two Persian Provinces; but for the most part, under the command of the Great Mogul; on the North, with Caucasus, by which parted from Tartary; on the South, with the Kingdom of Cambaia. So that it taketh up all the Northern parts of this Estate, which lie upon the West of the River Indus: from which Ri..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:0301:03, 23 May 2025 diff hist +60 List of books to transfer →Fully: Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5800:58, 23 May 2025 diff hist −1,416 Source:Bohun2 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5800:58, 23 May 2025 diff hist +723 N Fulda, River Created page with " === 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Fuld, Fulda, a River of Germany, which gives Name both to the City and Territory last mentioned; it ariseth in this Territory towards Franconia; and running Northward, watereth Fuld, and Hurschfeld in Hassia; then entertaining the Eder, he passeth by Cassel; and at Minden in Westphalia, being united with the Wertz and Verra, they two fo..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 00:5700:57, 23 May 2025 diff hist +968 N Fulda, City Created page with " === 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Fuld, Fulden, Fulda, a City of Germany, in Buchaw, or Buchen, a Territory in the Upper Circle of the Rhine, near Hassia; but from this City more frequently called Stift von Fuld, The Territory of the Abbey of Fuld. The City is built in a Plain: there is in it an Abbey of the Order of S. Bennet, one of the noblest in all Europe, which has the Civil Government o..." current Tag: Visual edit
21 May 2025
- 01:4501:45, 21 May 2025 diff hist −15,841 Source:Bohun2 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
- 01:4501:45, 21 May 2025 diff hist +1,701 N Lahor Created page with " === 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Lahor, Lahorium, Bucephala, a City of the East-Indies, which is also called Pengeab. It is seated upon the River Ravi; one hundred and eighty Miles from Multan to the East, three hundred and sixty from Agra to the North, in Lat. 31. 50. as M. Thevenot states it. This River falls into the Indus at Luckar. The name of Pengeab is given to this Province and City b..." current Tag: Visual edit
- 01:4301:43, 21 May 2025 diff hist +1,859 N Kiow Created page with " === 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. === <blockquote>Kiovia, Kiow, a City of Poland, seated upon the Nieper in the Ʋkrayne; which is the Capital of a County or Palatinate of the same Name; and a Bishop's See, under the Archbishop of Lemburgh; having still a very strong Castle. The Ruins of its Walls shew that it was once a great and a magnificent City; containing eight miles in circuit..." Tag: Visual edit
- 01:4001:40, 21 May 2025 diff hist +2,977 Italy →1694. The present state of the universe by John Beaumont. current Tag: Visual edit