XVIII. Central Europe

Mountains

486 The Alps run due north from northern Italy.

Rivers and Lake

487 f. renus: =Rhine.

488 The Elbe, unnamed (see, however, [513]); similar course on CE, CA, Bianco, and other maps.

489 f. prexant: =?

490 f. sudum^r(?): Sudumera, CA;=river of Sandomir, or Vistula (Hamy, 402).

491 lacus senire(?): ?Lacus Alech, CD; Lacus Nerja, CA;=?Bay of Putzig (Hamy, 400).

Edifices

492-497 All illeg.

498 polana: Polonia, CA;=Poland.

499 panon|ia: =?anct. Pannonia.

500 carcou|ia(?): Cracouja, CA;=Cracow.

501 podol|.a: =Podolia.

Place Names

(A) On the Rhine

502 austrua(?): =Austria.

503 colognia.

(B) Between Rhine and Elbe and on Elbe

504 bemia: =Bohemia.

505 praga: =Prague.

506 drensna: =Dresden.

507 misen: =Meissen.

508 guse: Guise, CA;=Würtzen (Hamy, 407).

509 aquis: =?

510 mogropes: Mangobror, CA;=?Magdeburg.

511 argenimon|de: Argent Munde, CA; Tangermünde (Buchon and Tastu, 49).

512 stendar: =Stendal.

513 albia: River name made into a place name;=Elbe.

(C) Between Elbe and Baltic

514 gara gorda(?): Garagona, CA;=Glogau (Hamy, 403).

515 schlauonia: =Sclavania, the name applied to the Slavic frontier region of Germany in the Middle Ages (Spruner-Mencke, Histor. Atlas, Mittelalter, No. 31).

516 sasonia: =Saxony.

517 ludus|maior: Ludis Magna, CA; Lundis Magna on Ptolemaic maps of the type called Scandico-Byzantine by Nordenskiöld (Periplus, 88); Bondismaguc, Con. (7; see Jiménez de la Espada 184-185);=?Lüdershagen, near Stralsund (Lelewel, ii, 65; Hamy, 400).

518 dazia: =Denmark.

519 prusia: =Prussia; see [523].

520 colbera: =Kolberg.

521 alec: Alech, CA;=Hela (Lelewel, ii, 65).

522 stetin.

523 pursia: Dupl. of [519].

524 godanse: Godansse, CA;=Danzig.

525 scheipe(?): Scorpe, CA;=?Stolp (Hamy, 400).

526 Sudana: Sudona, CA;=Sandecz (ibid., 402).

527 pante|nia: Prutenja, CA;=Königsberg on the Pregel (ibid., 401).

528 eue(?): =?

529 albig: Albing, CA;=Elbing (ibid., 402).