XXIII. Eastern Europe

Mountains

596 M^o. ripei: Dupl. of [2].

Rivers

597 Leardo’s unnamed river entering E extremity of Baltic is called Flum Nu on CD; Flum de Mi, CE;=Volkhof and Neva, confused (Hamy, 390).

598 f. axiazes: Axiaces Fl. of Sarmatia Europae, Ptol. (III, 5:18 (FA9)).

599 f. turllo: Kretschmer (Port., 642) records Flumen Turle only on an anonymous fifteenth century map in the Museum für Meereskunde, Berlin (ibid., pp. 133-135);=Dniester (ibid., 642).

Edifices

(A) North of Neva

600 zimachia Inferior: ?corruption of Sarmatia, Ptol. (passim (FA9)). See also [12].

601 rosia: =Russia.

(B) Between Don, Neva, and Black Sea

602 Lordo, applying to a group of tents;=the Golden Horde of Tatars (Hallb., 318-319).

603 nogard|ia: Nogorado, CD; Nogorodo, CE;=Novgorod (Hamy, 390).

604 alana: Allania, CA;=the Alans (Hallb., 13-14).

605 albana: Albania, NW of Caspian Sea, Ptol. (V, 12 (FA18)); see Hallb., 14-15;=Shirvan and Daghestan (Besnier, 29).

606 br . . ica(?): Branchicha, CA; Brancica, Piz.;=Briansk (Hamy, 392).

607 brachi|at: ?Dupl. of [606].

608 bthnia: =?Bothnia.

609 rossia: Dupl. of [601].

610 transil|uana: =Transylvania, misplaced.

Place Names

(A) Crimean Peninsula

611 gotia: =“A small stretch of land between the Yaila Range and the coast, in the hands of the Genoese after the fourteenth century” (Kret., Port., 643); see also Yule, Polo, ii, 492.

612 soldaia: =Sudak, important trading post in Genoese hands after 1365 (ibid., 644).

613 gafa: =Kafa, Feodosia (ibid.).

614 soronti(?): =?

615 uospe|ro: =Kerch (ibid.).

(B) At Eastern End of the Baltic.

616 piaha(?): =?Pinsk.

617 letefa|n paga|n: Litefanie Pagans, CA;=Lithuania (Hamy, 398-399).

(C) On Lake at Headwaters of Neva, Don, and Volga

618 perana: Perum, CA; CE=Murom (Hamy, 394).