Cosmographie in four bookes : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole vvorld, and all the principall kingdomes, provinces, seas and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn.

1 WINDISCHLAND.

WINDISCHLAND is bounded on the East with part of the Lower Hungary, from which se∣parated by a line drawne from St. Nicolas near the River Dravus to the town of Polega, standing on a little River which fals into the Savus on the West with Carniola, or Krain, a Province of the Arch∣dukedome of Austria: on the North with the River Dravus, on the South with Croatia. It is thus called by the Dutch as the Land or Countrie of the Winithi, or Vendi, the greatest Nation of the Sclaves, whom generally they call by the name of Windisch: and antiently for so much of it as lieth on the North of the Savus accounted part of Pannonia Inferior, as afterwards of the Province of Savia, till conquered by the Sclaves, and laid unto their possessions; from whom named Windischland, as before.

Places of most importance in it are 1 Windisch-greits,* 1.1 seated on the Dravus, the Vinundria and Vin∣d••mana of the Antients. 2 Sagona, neere unto the Savus. 3 Gradiska on the South, and 4 Zagabria, on the North of the same River: from which last a great part of this Countrey is called Comitatus Zagabriensis. 5 Novigrod, on the Savus also, but more neere to Germany. 6 Petrowya, situate at the foot of the mountaines, which are between the Savus and the Dravus, and divide Hungary from 〈◊〉〈◊〉 7 Siseg, or Sissakhen, (the Sissia of Pliny and Antoninus) situate on the Saw, over against Zagabria, where it receiveth the river Zulp, famous for the notable resistance which the Turks there found, anno 1593. Who hoping by the conquest of this Province to open a free passage into Germany, entred it with a puissant Army, (having in their way taken the Castle of Ostrowits and the strong Town of Wihits in Croatia) and sate down very strongly intrenched before this Town. But the town held it out most gallantly against all their batteries and assaults, till relieved by a power of Germans who came to succour them; by whom 8000 of the Turkes were slaine in the place, and most of the rest drowned in the River Savus, as they fled hastily, and (through that gre••t hast) blindely from the sword of the Conquerour.

This Province for the most part is under the Princes of the house of Austria, as Kings of Hungary, to which Crown it formerly belonged; those parts of it which lie next to Hungary, on the North and East, groaning under the tyranny and bondage of the Turkish Garrisons.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Croatia.