A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names of all the counties, provinces, remarkable cities, universities, ports, towns, mountains, seas, streights, fountains, and rivers of the whole world : their distances, longitudes, and latitudes : with a short historical account of the same, and their present state : to which is added an index of the ancient and Latin names : very necesary for the right understanding of all modern histories, and especially the divers accounts of the present transactions of Europe / begun by Edmund Bohun ... ; continued, corrected, and enlarged with great additions throughout, and particularly with whatever in the geographical part of the voluminous, Morey and Le Clerks occurs observable, by Mr. Bernard ; together with all the market-towns, corporations, and rivers, in England, wanting in both the former editions.

QA. (Book q)

QUadalquivirio, See Guadalquivirejo.

Quadi, the old Inhabitants of Moravia, and the North of Austria, as far as the Danube: who maintained a perpetual War with the Romans, till the year of Christ 565: when they were conquered first by Lechus Duke of Poland. In the time of the Emperour Valentiman, they advanced as far as to Aquileja: and though the Marcomanni dwelt in Moravia too, yet the Quadi and them were two as distinct people, as the present Moravians and the Trans-Danubian Austrians; which latter possess the Seats of the Quadi.

Quancheu, Quangcheu, Quancheum, the Capital City of the Province of Quamsi, in the Kingdom of China; sometime called Jangching and Quangtung; and by Foreigners, Canton. It stands upon the Ri∣ver Ta, which a little lower falls into the Ocean; and affords it a large and safe Harbour, defended by two Castles. It is surrounded with Hills, in Circuit four German Miles. Besieged twelve Months by the Tar∣tars; and a last taken more by fraud, than force; to the great ruin of it, and the slaughter of its In∣habitants in 1650. Long. 140. 30. Lat. 26. 25. ac∣cording to the last and best Maps.

Quangan, Quanganum, a City in the Province of Yunnan, in China; in the hands of the King of Tunkim.

Quangping, a City of the Province of Pekim in China.

Quangsi, one of the principal Cities of the Pro∣vince of Yunnan in China.

Quangte, a City in the Province of Nanquin, or Nankim.

Quamsi, or Quansi, Quansia, a Province in the King∣dom of China: bounded by Yunnan on the West, Queycheu on the North, Cochin China on the South, Quantum on the East. The Capital of it Queilin. It con∣tains

eleven Cities, ninety nine great Towns; 186719 Families: the last Province which the Tartars Con∣quered.

Quanto, a Province in the Isle of Niphon, in the Kingdom of Japan.

Quantum, Quangtung, a vast Province in China; bounded on the North by Kiamsi, and Huquam; on the East by Fokien; on the West by Quamsi, and the Kingdom of Tumkim, or Cochin China; and on the South by the Ocean. It contains ten Cities, seventy three great Towns, and 483360 Families. One of the best watered, and most fruitful Provinces in this Kingdom.

Quaquacust, la coste des Dents, a part of Guinea in Africa; which extends eight Spanish Leagues in length from East to West. See Guinee, and Coste de dents.

Quarentan, Vadicasses, or Carentan; a Sea-Port Town in Normandy; seventeen Leagues from Caen to the West, and eight from Coutances to the North-East.

Quars. See Carin.

Quebec, the Principal French City in New France in America: taken from the Indians in the Conquest of this part of their Country by French Men, and very strongly fortified.

Queda, a City of the East-Indies, upon the Pro∣montory of Malacca, over against Sumatra. Long. 125. 31. Lat. 5. 50. It has an excellent Port, and a very great Trade, being much frequented by the European Merchants and the Capital of a Kingdom of the same name; which was subject to the King of Siam, but has now a Prince of its own.

Quedelinburgh, a Town in the Ʋpper Saxony in Germany. Once a Free Imperial Town, but being afterwards exempted, became (together with its Ter∣ritory) subject to its own Abbess, whose House here was of great fame. It lies two German Miles from Halberstad to the South: now (with its Territory) subject to the Duke of Saxony. In the year 1085. Hermannus, elected King of the Romans by the Par∣tisans of Pope Gregory VII. to oppose the Emperor Henry IV. assembled a Council at this Town; in which sentence of Anathema passed upon the Henrycianes, called Heretiques; and the Antipope, Guibertus, set up by the Emperor. There was another in 1103. re∣markable for its giving absolution to Henry, Son of the Emperor Henry IV. for revolting against his Fa∣ther; tho others place this latter sometime to Northau∣sen in Thuringia.

Quedenau, a Village in the Dukedom of Prussia in Poland. Of great note amongst the Sea-faring People, for a Church there dedicated to S. James; whither they repair to perform their Vows and Devo∣tions.

Queens County, a County in the Province of Leinster in Ireland; called by the Irish, Cunntae Loighsaigh. Bounded by Kildare to the West, Kil∣kenny to the South, and Kings County to the East. The chief Town of which is Queens Town, sixteen Miles from Kildare to the West, and twenty two from Kilkenny to the North

Queicheu, Queichea, a Province on the South-West of China; bounded on the North with Suchuen; on the East with Huquam; on the South with Quamsi, and on the West with Yunnan. This Province is ex∣tremely Mountainous: It has eight Cities, ten great Towns, and forty five thousand three hundred and three Families. The Capital City is Queiyan.

Queicheu, a City in the Province of Suchuen, in the Kingdom of China, upon the River Kiang; built in a very fruitful and well watered Plain. This is the Capital of twelve Towns.

Queilin, a City in the Province of Quamsi in Chi∣na, upon the River Quei.

Queilloa, Quiloa, Kiloa, a Kingdom of Zangue∣bar, in Africa; between Mosambique and Melinde; on the Eastern Shoar of Africa: the King of which is a Tributary to the King of Portugal. It has a City of the same name, seated in an Island; which is 1509. was taken by Francis Almaida, the Portugal Vice-Roy of Africa. Long. 63 25. South Lat. 9. 18. This Island, called also Queilloa, hath a strong Cittadel for its defence, together with a famous Port; and is ho∣noured with the Residence of the King. § Some place another, an old City, Queilloa, upon another quarter of it.

Queite, Queitum, a City in the Province of Honan in China.

Queiyang, a great City in the Province of Quei∣cheu in China.

Quercy, Cadurcensis Tractus, is a County in Gui∣enne•• in Aquitain, in France; great, populous, and fruitful in Corn, Wine, Cattel, &c. B••••nded on the North by Limosin; on the East by Auvergne and Ro∣vergne; on the South by Languedoc; and on the West by Agenois and Perigort. The Capital of it is Cahors; the other Towns are Montauban, Figeac, Gordone, and Martel. This was the Country of the ancient Cadurci in Caesar, who furnished the Gauls with twelve thousand Men in their League against the Romans. It became united with the Crown of France in the Reign of Philip the Hardy.

Querimba, an Island towards the North-East of Madagascar.

Quernfurt, a small Town, which is yet the Ca∣pital of an Earldom of the same name, in the Ʋpper Saxony; in the County of Mansfeld; under the Duke of Saxony ever since 1635: but it belonged before to the Bishop of Magdeburg.

Quesnoy, Quercetum, a small but very strong Town in Hainault; three Leagues from Landrecy to the North, two from Valenciennes, and five from Cambray: In the Hands of the French ever since 1654.

Queximi, Aphana, an Island in the Gulph of Per∣sia; by others called Quetumi.

Quiansy, or Kiangsy, Quiansia, a Province in China, towards the South of that Kingdom; boun∣ded on the East by Chekiam, on the South by Quan∣tum, on the West by Huquam, and on the North by Nankim. The Capital of which is Nanchang. It contains thirteen Cities, sixty seven great Towns, and one hundred thirty six thousand six hundred and twen∣ty nine Families.

Quibriche, the same with Bernich in Bar∣bary.

Quieras, a strong Town in Piedmont, upon an Hill and the Banks of the River Tanaro: where the famous Treaty betwixt France, Spain, the Empire, Savoy, and Modena was celebrated in 1631.

Quimper, Corisopitum, a City in the Province of Britagne, in the Territory of Cornvaile; which is a Bishops See, under the Archbishop of Tours; upon the Oder. Three Leagues from the Ocean to the North, ten from Brest, and forty from Rennes. Called commonly also Quimper-Corantine, from Co∣rantinus, the supposed Tutelar Saint of the Dio∣cese: to whom is Dedicated here the Cathedral Church.

Quimperlay, a Town in Britagne, upon the River Isotte; two Leagues from the Sea, and ten from Quim∣per to the East.

Quinborongh or Queenborough, the chief Town of the Island of Shepey in Kent, in Scray Lath; which hath the honor to be represented by two Burgesses in

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the Lower House of Parliament; and to be secured by a Castle Royal.

Quinque Ecclesiae, a City of the Lower Hungary; called by the Inhabitants, Otegiazae; by the Germans, Funfkircken; by the Turks, Petscheu; by the French, Cinq Eglises. It stands in the County of Baran, upon the River Keoriz, not far from the Drave: six Ger∣man Miles from the Danube, twenty three from Bel∣grade to the North-West, fourteen from Alba Rega∣lis, twelve from Buda to the South. It has this name from five noble Churches which were heretofore in this City. Stephen King of Hungary established the Bi∣shoprick here, (in 1009,) under the Archbishop of Gran. Solyman the Magnificent took it with great difficulty, in 1543: and died in it after, whilst his Ar∣my lay before Sigeth, in 1566. Count Serin II. burnt it and the Bridge of Esseck in 1664. Having been sur∣prised and plundered by the Croatian Army, in 1685. the year following after the taking of Buda, it was surrendered without resistance to the Imperialists. The Turkish Governor saying; Now the old Hen was es∣caped out of their Hands, the Chickens would follow her. Long. 42. 08. Lat. 46. 09.

Quinsay, Kingsai, Kingsa, or Kangcheu, and Quisay, a vast City in the Province of Chequin; which in 1300. was the Capital, and Royal City of China, the Residence of the Emperors: said then to be ten Leagues in length, five broad, and thirty in Circuit; containing about a Million of Families: to have twelve hundred and sixty Stone Bridges, a Lake in the midst of it about thirty Miles in circumference, four hun∣dred and seventy Gates, with a Wall thirty Leagues in compass of that breadth at the top, that twelve Horse∣men might Ride a breast without any inconvenience upon it. This City stands upon the River Cientang, about sorty Leagues from the Eastern Ocean. Some confound it with Peking. The Cham of Tartary is said to keep a Garrison in it of thirty thousand Men.

S. Quintin, Quintinum, a City in the Province of Picardy in France; which is the Capital of Ver∣mandois; and sprung up out of the ruins of Augusta Veromanduorum, a Roman Town. Famous for a great defeat of the French Forces; upon which it was yield∣ed to the Earl of Pembroke, who besieged it in 1557. But the getting of this Town was the loss of Calais: the Garrison of which was drawn out by King Philip to manage this Siege; two years after, the French recovered S. Quintin by a Treaty, and kept Calais too. It stands upon the River Somme; six Leagues from Perronne to the East, and seven from Cambray to the South.

Quir, a part of the unknown Terra Australis; discovered by a Spaniard of the Name, but unculti∣vated as yet by Europeans.

Quiscon, or Quiscun, Ionia, a Province of the Lesser Asia.

Quiso, Cissa, a River of the Colchi; which falls into the Euxine Sea; seventy six Miles South of the Mouth of the Phasos; now called il Fazo.

Quiess, Quissus, a River of Bohemia, in the Lower Silesia; which in the Borders of Lusatia falls into the Borber, near Sagan; seven German Miles from Glo∣gaw to the West.

Quiteva, or Quieteva, a City and Kingdom in Africa, on the South of Aethiopia; heretofore a part of the Kingdom of Monotapia; towards Zangue∣bar.

Quito, a Province of Peru, in South America, in the North part of that Kingdom: between the Pro∣vince of Quixo to the East, and the Pacifick Ocean to the West; eighty Leagues long, and thirty five broad. It had at first Kings of its own; but before the arrival of the Spaniards, was Conquered by the King of Peru; and together with it, fell under the Dominion of Spain.

El Quito, the Capital City of the Province called by its name; a Bishops See, under the Archbishop of Lima; in a fruitful Valley, at the foot of a Mountain called Volcano Pinta; near Machangara, and Machan∣gavilla, two Rivers almost under the Line. It is like∣wise called S. Francisco del Quito. Two hundred and fifty Spanish Leagues from Lima to the North, and six from the Pacifick Ocean to the East. In 1586. there was an University opened here.

The Government of Quito, is a considerable part of South America; and one of the three principal Pro∣vinces of the Kingdom of Peru; on the North it is bounded with Popian; on the East with the Rivers of Pulumaio, and Amazons; on the South with the rest of Peru, and on the West with the Pacifick Ocean. The Andes divide it into two parts; besides Quito, it contains Canela, Quixos, and the South and middle Popian; with some other Territories of small Note. This is a fruitful, populous, and well watered Pro∣vince.

Quivira, a Province in North America; between New Mexico, Mount Sual, and Florida; which was never Conquered by any of the European Nations, nor indeed throughly Discovered. It affords good pastu∣rage along the Sea Coast.

Quixos, or los Quixos, Quixorum Provincia, la Province in the North of Peru; between Quito to the West, and Canela to the East; first Discovered in 1557. by the Spaniards, who have only four Colonies in it.