Countreys.	Cities.
Damascene. Cœlesyria.	Damascus. Gal. 1. Philadelphia. Apoc. 1. Buthis, vel Pella.
Marginalia* Antiochia, apud Orontem, chiefe Citie in Syria, where the Disciples of Christ were fyrst named Christians. Act. 11.Cassiotis,	* Antiochia, apud Oron- tem, vel Theopolis. (Act. 11.
Marginalia* Nicopolis is a citie also in Macedonia mentioned in the epistle of S. Paule to Titus, cap. 3.Comagena.	Samosata. Antiochia, sub Tauro. Alexandria, apud Ißū. * Nicopolis.
Marginalia* Seleucia is a Citie in Syria: Also an other in Pamphilia: an other in Cilicia pisidiæ: an other in Cœlesyria, & in Mesopotamia an other.Seleucis.	Gephyra. Gindarus. * Seleucia. Act. 13. Jmma.
Marginalia* In this Laodicæa was the councell kept, which is called Concilium Laodicense. There is an other Laodicæa in Lydiæ neere to Coloßæ, in Asia minor. Coloß. 5. Laodicæa also is the chiefe Citie in Phrygia pacatiana, nere to Galatia. Act. 18. 1. Tim. 6.Laodicene.	* Laodicea. Coloss. 2. Paradisus. Iabruda.
Apamene.	Nazāma. Apamia.
Idumea. Marc. 3.	Besamma, vel Bersabee. Eleusa. Gen. 21. Massa.
¶ Thus farre reacheth the compasse of Syria.
Arabia. Gal. 1. 4.	Petrea, or Nabatea. Panchaia. Fœlix. Sabæa. Deserta.
MarginaliaIn Edeßa reigned kyng Abgarus, mencioned Euseb. Lib. 1. cap. 15. to whom Christ wrote, promising to send vnto hym after hys death. Mesopotamia. (Psal. 59.	Carra, or Charan, where Abraham dwelt. (Act. 7. Seleucia. Edessa. which is nowe called Orpha, & in the storie of Tobias, cal- led Rages.
MarginaliaBabilon in Chaldea, where Nabuchodonozor reigned, and was after destroyed and translated by Seleucus Nicanor: an other is in Ægypt, called Alcayrus. Babilonia. Dan. 3. In the coūtrey of Babilonia, is also a certaine regiō ap pointed for Philo- sophers and Astro nomers, called Chaldæa. Iere. 50.	Bible. Babylon, vel Baldach. (Act. 7. Orchoe, vel Vrchoa, vel Hur chaldeorum, where Abraham was borne. Gen. 11. 15.
Sarmatia.	Patarue. Azara. Gerusa S. Georgius. Sinda.
Cholchis.	Dioscuria, vel Sebastia, which is now called Suias. Phasis.
Iberia.	Labium. Artanissa. Armachica.
Albania.	Getara, vel Gangara. Chabala.
Armenia. Gen. 8.	Armenia Maior, is diuided from Armenia Minor, by the ryuer Euphrates. This Armenia Maior and Minor, this day bee both vnder the Turkes.

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¶ And thus farre reacheth the compasse of Asia Minor, with the countreys and prouinces to the same perteinyng, which being once brought to þ^e fayth of Christ, are now, in a maner, all subdued to the Turkes.

¶ The Ilandes belongyng to the regions of Asia Minor aforesayd, gotten by the Turkes.

MarginaliaIlandes belonging to Asia minor.

Thinias.		to	Bythinia.
Tenedos.		to	Troas.
Chios.	Act. 20.	to	Lydia.
Pathmos.	Apoc. 1
Poßidium.		to	Æolis.
Samos.	Act. 20.	to	Ionia.
Trogylium.	Act. 20.
Cnidus.	Act. 27	to	Doris.
Coos. Coum.	Act. 21.	to	Doris.
Carpathus.		to	Doris.
Rhodus.	Act. 21.	to	Lycia.
Cyprus.	Act. 11.MarginaliaThys Cyprus K. Richard the first did once subdue, fyghtyng agaynst the Saracens.
Lesbos, with the Citie Mitylene.	Act. 20.

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¶ Æneas Syluius, otherwise Pope Pius. 2 in describyng  

of Asia Minor. cap. 74. reciteth a certeine facte of a worthy virgine: MarginaliaEx Æne. Syluio. lib. De orbis Descriptione. cap. 74.who, at what tyme the Turkes were besiegyng a certain town in Lesbos, & had cast down a great part of the walles, so that all the townesmen had geuen ouer, putting on a mans harnes, stepped forth into the breache, where not onely she kept the Turkes from entryng in, but also slue of them a great sorte. MarginaliaA memorable facte of a virgine in defence of her countrey.The Citizens seyng the rare courage and good successe of the mayden, tooke to them agayne their hartes & harnes, and so lustely layd about them, that an incredible number of the Turkes were slaine. The rest beyng repulsed from the lande, reculed into their shyppes: who beyng then pursued by a nauie of Calisa, were worthely discomfited lykewise vpon the sea. And thus was the Ile of Lesbos at that tyme, by a poore virgine, that is, by the strong hand of the Lorde workyng in a weake creature, preserued from the Turkes. Ex. Æne. Siluio. Et Seb. Munst. Lib. 5.

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¶ Beside these regions and countreys  

of Asia Minor aboue described, Sebast. Munsterus in the 5. booke of his Cosmographie declareth moreouer, MarginaliaEx Sebast. Munst. Cosmogr. Lib. 5. in præfat.that the Turkes and Sultanes haue vnder their subiection, both Arabia, Persia, and also India exterior, wherin is Calecute. The which Persia although it be vnder þ^e Sophi,   whiche is an enemy to þ^e Turke, yet it is to be thought that he is a Sultane, one of the Turkishe and Mahometish Religion. This Persia and India were once seasoned with Christes Gospell, as may appeare by the primitiue Churche, MarginaliaVid. supra, pag. 135. 136.pag. 135. And thus haue you the partes of Asia described, whiche in tymes past beyng almost all Christened, doe now serue vnder the Turke.

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After the description of Asia, let vs next consider the partes and countreys of Aphrike:  

Where although the greatest part either consisteth in desertes desolate, or is possessed with Prester Iohn, whiche professeth Christ and his Gospell:   yet the Turke hath there also no litle portion vnder his dominion, as

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Countreys.	Cities.
Ægyptus. Math. 2.	Alexandria. Memphis. Arsinoe.
Regnū Tunece.
Africa Minor. Cyrene. Act. 2. Mauritania.	Charlago. Aphrodisium. Hippon. Here S. Au- gustine was Bishop.