A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross.
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A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross.
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London :: Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in St Pauls Church-yard, near the little North Door,
1664.
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"A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56069.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Carinthia described.
Carinthia, by the Dutch called Karnten, which is bounded on the East with Stiermark, and the River Levandt: On the West with the District of Saltzburg, and the River Saltzach; On the North with Austria; and on the South with Carniola, and the River Dravus, It's situate in the worst part of the Alps, and is poor and barren, except only in Minerals; extend∣ing all along the Dravus for a hundred English miles in length, and forty seven in breadth, betwixt that River, and the Mur, by which it is bounded.
The chief Towns in it are. 1. StVeit, situate at the meeting of the Glan, and the Winies, adorned with a spacious market-place, and a beautiful Conduit. 2. Vittach, seated on the Dravus in a fruitful Valley, encompassed about with Rocks; the Houses are adorned on the outside with painted Sories, ve∣ry delightful to behold. 3. Gurch, a small Town, but an Epis∣copal See. 4. Clangfoot, on the Lake called Werd-Zee, a well senced place. 5. Wolsperg, on the Lavandt, neer to Steir∣mark. 6. Lavamundt, an Episcopal See on the same border, situate where that River falls into the Dravus. 7. Freisach, a very ancient Town, &c.