Note (G) — THE HISTORY OF Solyman the Magnificent, and Mustapha his Son.
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Sophia, the Capital City of Bulgaria, a Province of Hungary, now in the hands of the Othomans. (The Turks are called Othomans, from Othoman, the first Founder of their Empire.) ’Tis seated on the River Ciabrum. It is famous for a General Council that met in the Year 347, which condemn’d the Proceedings of the Council of Nice, a City of Bythinia, that met in the year 325. There it another City of that name in Provence.