a river of Turkey in Europe, which rises in Bulgaria, runs north through Servia by Niša, and falls into the Danube at Semondria, to the eastward of Belgrade.

**Moravia**, a marquisate of Germany, derives the name of *Mahern*, as it is called by the Germans, and of *Morawa*, as it is called by the natives, from the river of that name, which rises in the mountains of the county of Glatz, and passes through the middle of it. It is bounded to the south by Austria, to the north by Glatz and Silezia, to the west by Bohemia, and to the east by Silezia and Hungary; being about 120 miles in length and 100 in breadth.

A great part of this country is overrun with woods and mountains, where the air is very cold, but much wholesomer than in the low grounds, which are full of bogs and lakes. The mountains, in general, are barren; but the more champaign parts tolerably fertile, yielding corn, with plenty of hemp and flax, good saffron, and pasture. Nor is it altogether destitute of wine, red and white, fruits, and garden stuff. Moravia also abounds in horses, black cattle, sheep, and goats. In the woods and about the lakes there is plenty of wild fowl, game, venison, bees, honey, hares, foxes, wolves, beavers, &c. This country affords marble, alum, iron, sulphur, saltpetre, and vitriol, with mineral waters, and warm springs; but salt is imported. Its rivers, of which the March, Morawa, or Morau, are the chief, abound with trout, crayfish, barbels, eels, perch, and many other sorts of fish.

The language of the inhabitants is a dialect of the Slavonic, differing little from the Bohemian; but the nobility and citizens speak German and French.

Moravia was anciently inhabited by the Quadi, who were driven out by the Slavni. Its kings, who were once powerful and independent, afterwards became dependent on, and tributary to, the German emperors and kings. At last, in the year 908, the Moravian kingdom was parcelled out among the Germans, Poles, and Hungarians. In 1086, that part of it properly called Moravia was declared a marquisate by the German king Henry IV. and united with Bohemia, to whose dukes and kings it hath ever since been subject. Though it is not very populous, it contains about 42 greater or walled towns, 17 smaller or open towns, and 198 market towns, besides villages, &c. The