BAYJAH, or BEGIA, a town of the kingdom of Tunis in Africa, supposed to be the ancient Vacca of Sallust, and Oppidum Vaggense of Pliny. It Baja, Bajazet.

was formerly, and still continues to be, a place of great trade, and the chief market of the kingdom for corn; of which the adjacent territories produce such abundance, that they can supply more than the whole kingdom with it; and the Tunifans say, that if there was in the kingdom such another town as this for plenty of corn, it would become as cheap as sand. Here is also a great annual fair, to which the most distant Arabian tribes resort with their families and flocks. Notwithstanding all this, however, the inhabitants are very poor, and great part of the land about the town remains uncultivated, through the cruel exactions of the government, and the frequent incursions of the Arabs, who are very powerful in these parts. The town stands on the declivity of a hill on the road to Constantinople, about ten leagues from the northern coast, and 36 fourth-west from Tunis; and hath the convenience of being well watered. On the highest part is a citadel that commands the whole place, but is now of no great strength. The walls were raised out of the ruins of the ancient Vacca, and have some ancient inscriptions.

a populous town of Hungary, on the Danube, in E. Long. 19. 50. N. Lat. 46. 40.