Note (3) — 1.—Of the first combat between King Sigmund and the Turks.

(3.) “The king took possession of this city also.”—Hammer (328) and Engel (Gesch. d. U. R., ii, 198) are of opinion, that Schiltberger here refers to the city of Orsova; but the former allows, that the city believed by Engel to be Orsova, was the Aristum of Bonfinius (Rer. Hung. Decad. III., ii, 377), called Raco by the French Marshal (449); it may therefore be conceded that the city in question was Rahova, on the road taken by the Christian army, which would have been retracing its steps, had its aim, after the capture of Widdin, been the siege of Orsova.—Bruun.