HISTORY OF THE WAR IN BOSNIA DURING THE YEARS 1737-8 AND 9. TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY C. FRASER, PROFESSOR OF GERMAN IN THE NAVAL AND MILITARY ACADEMY, EDINBURGH, LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND. SOLD BY J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; 1830. 24467:e2. INTRODUCTION. BOSNIA, or BOSNA, was included anciently in Pannonia Inferior; and in the fourth century formed a part of that vast district called Illyricum, which comprehended, under this general appellation, Rhætia, Noricum, Pannonia, Dalmatia, Mosia or Mysia,* Thracia, Macedonia, and Greece; and which afterwards was divided into two provinces, viz. Liburnia and Dalmatia. It received its present name from a river which runs through it to the Save (Savius), called Bosna (Bocantus); near the mouth of which stood Sir In some histories Bosnia is supposed to be the country that was anciently called Mysia. Playfair, whom I follow, says: "That Mysia extended from the confines of Macedonia and Thracia northward to the Danube, and from Pannonia and Illyricum eastward to the Euxine sea: divided by the river Ciabrus, Zibris, into Mœsia Superior or Prima, now called Servia; and Mœsia Inferior or Secundus, now Bulgaria." Bosnia, or at least part of it, was, in 1103, called the kingdom of Rama. |