Note 57 — BOOK II.

The Mersbourg of the Crusaders is now called Ovar; in German Ungarisch-Altenburgh; in Sclavonic Stare-Hrady. It is situated in the marshes that the Leytha forms on its embouchure into the Danube. Its position is such that it is impossible to go from Austria into Hungary on that side without passing by it. ’See Busching, Geog.) The name of Mersbourg, which Albert d’Aix gives to this place, is no longer in use: but that of Altenburgh, which has succeeded it, and which signifies old city, indicates sufficiently clearly a more ancient name; and the name of Moisson, which other historians of the crusades give to the same place, is still found in the Latin and Hungarian name of the county of Wieselbourg, upon which this city depends; Mesony wanmgye, Mesoniensis Comitatus.