or KHAN, the title given to the sovereign princes of Tartary.

The word, in the Persian, signifies mighty lord; in the Sclavonic, emperor. Sperlingus, in his dissertation on the Danish term of majesty, koning, king, thinks the Tartarian cham may be well derived from it; adding, that in the north they say kan, kommen, konge, kon-

ring, &c. The term cham is also applied, among the Persians, to the great lords of the court, and the governors of provinces.

in Geography, a town of the Bavarian palatinate, situated on a river of the same name, about 25 miles north-east of Ratibon. E. Long. 13. N. Lat. 49. 15.