Baltic ; and .is seated on the river Zua, 50 m. N.
W. of Tver.

Visiapour, or Bejapour, a province of Hindoos-
tan, 350 m. long and about 200 broad, bounded N.
and E. by the provinces of Aurungabad and Beder,
S. by Canara and the river Toombuddra, and W.
by the sea. The soil is in general fertile and
provisions are plentiful and cheap'.

Visiapour, or Bejapour, the capital of the fore-
going province, was formerly a great city, and is
said to have contained immense wealth, some of
which has been found among the ruins. It was
besieged by Aurungzebe, and obliged to capitu-
late in 1689. It is situate in a fertile plain, 150
m. S. E- of Poonah and 340 N. by W. of Sering-
apatam. Long. 75. 40. E., lat. 17.16. N.

Viso, a mountain of the Marintime Alps, in
Piedmont, noted as the source of the river Po.

Vistula, a river which rises in the Carpathian
mountains, on the confines of Moravia and Hun
gary, flows through Poland and Prussia, by Cra-
cow, Sandomir, Warsaw, Culm, Marienburg, and
Dantzic, and enters the Baltic by three mouths.

Vitepsk, a government of Russia, lying between
Courland and Livonia; it has an area of about

20,000 square miles, and contains 750,000 inhab-
itants. The surface is flat, and covered with ex-
tensive forests.

Vitepsk, a city of Russia, capital of the forego-
ing government. It is divided into two parts by
the river Dwina, and is surrounded by a wall. In
the campaign of 1812 it was entered by the French.
297 m. W. of Moscow and 320 S. of St. Peters-
burg.

Viterbo, a town of Italy, capital of a delegation
of its name, in the pope’s dominions, and a bish-
op’s see. Its streets are broad and well paved,
and it contains 16 parish-churches, and numerous
convents, palaces, and fountains. Near the city
is a hot mineral spring much frequented. It is
seated at the foot of a mountain, in a beautiful
valley, 40 m. N. N. W. of Rome. Long. 12.26. E.,
lat. 42. 25. N.

Vitre, a town of France, department of Ille et
Vilaine, with a trade in linen cloth, and knit
stockings and gloves, seated on the Vilaine, 20 m.
N. E. ofRennes and 52 S. E. of St. Malo.

Vitrij le Brule, a village of France 2 m. N. E. of
Vitry le Francois. It was formerly a considera-
ble town, but was burnt by Louis VII., and on
this account called Brule. The English and Bur-
gundians, in the war with Charles VII., set fire
to Vitry with 60 villages. It was a third time
burned and ruined by the troops of the emperor
Charles V.    *

Vitry le Francois, a town of France, depart-
ment of Marne, built by Francis I. after the de-
struction of Vitry le Brule by the emperor Charles
V. It has a great trade in corn, and is seated on
the Marne, 15 m. S. E. of Chalons and 100 E. of
Paris.

Vitteaux, a town of France, in the department
of Cote d’Or, seated on the river Braine, among
the mountains, where there are quarries of mar-
ble, 12 m. S. E. of Semur and 27 W. of Dijon.

Vittorio, a town of Spain, capital of the prov-
ince of Alaba, in Biscay. It is surrounded by
double walls, and the large streets are bordered
with trees. In the principal square are the town-
house, two convents, and a fine fountain. It has
a great trade in hardware, particularly in sword-
blades, which are made here in large quantities.
It is seated on an eminence, at the end of a plain,
fertile in corn and grapes, 32 m. S. E. of Bilbao
and 155 N. ofMadrid . Long. 2. 38. W. lat. 42

45. N.

Vivarez, a territory of France, in the N. E.
part of Languedoc, on the banks of the Rhone,
now forming the department of Ardeche.

Vivero, a town of Spain, in Galicia, seated
at the foot of a steep mountain, near the river Vi-
vero or Landrova, which flows into the Bay of
Biscay. 22 m. N. W. of Mondonedo.

Viviers, a town of France, department of Ar-
deche, seated among rocks (on one of which the
cathedral is built) on the river Rhone, 16 m. S.
by E. of Privas.

Vladimir. See Volodimir.

Vlieland, an island of the Netherlands, about 8
m. long and 3 broad, situate at the entrance of
the Zuyder Zee, 5 m. N. of Texel.

Vighera, a province of the Sardinian states, ad-
jacent to Austrian Italy, comprising an area of
100 square miles, with 110,000 inhabitants. The
soil is fertile in corn and wine, and much silk is
produced.

Voghera, a town of Italy, capital of the above
province, and a bishop’s see. The chief manu-
facture is that of silk. It is seated on the Staffo-
ra, 9 m. N. E. of Tortone.

Voglabruck, a town of Austria, on the river Vo-
gel, 28 m. N. E. of Salzburg and 38 S. W. of
Lintz.

Void, a town of France, department of Meuse,
18 m. E. S. E. of Aar le Euc.

Voigeland, a circle of the kingdom of Saxony,
adjoining that of Erzgebirge, comprising an area
of700 square miles, with 100.000 inhabitants. It
is very hilly, and abounds in wood; but the
valleys afford plenty of corn, and pastures that
feed great numbers of excellent cattle. Plauen
is the capital.

Voigtsberg, a town and citadel of Saxony, in
Voigtland, 5 m. S. by. E. of Plauen.

Voigtsberg, a town of the Austrian States in
Stiria, seated on the Kainach 18 m. E. by S. of
Gratz.

Vohelmark, or Volkenmark, a town of Austrian
Illyria, in Carinthia, seated on the Drave, 17 m
E. by S. of Clagenfurt.

Volcano, one of the most considerable of the Li-
pari Islands in the Mediteranean, lying S. of the
island of Lipari, from which it is separated by a
deep channel, a mile and a half broad. It is 12
miles in circumference, and is a volcano, in the
form of a broken cone, hut now emits smoke only.

Volcanello a small volcanic island in the
Mediterranean, between that of Lipari and Volum.

Volga, a river of Russia, which forms part of
the boundary between Europe and Asia. It has
its source in two small lakes, in the government
of Pleskof, about 80 m. W. of Tver, begins to be
navigable a few m. above that town, and is there
augmented bv the influx of the Tverza. It wa-
ters some of the finest provinces in the Russian
empire, passes by Yaroslaf, Kosfroma, Nishnei,
Novogorod, Kasan, Simbirsk, Saratof, Tzaritzin,
and Astracan, and enters the Caspian Sea, by sev
eral mouths. This is supposed to be the largest
river in Europe ; and by means of it, the river
Tverza, and a canal thence to the Neva, there is
a navigable communication between the Caspian
Sea and the Baltic.

Volhynia, a government of Russia, 220 m. long
and 130 broad; bounded on the N. by Polesia,
E. by Kiof, S. by Podolia, and W. by the king-
dom of Poland. It consists chiefly of fertile
plains, watered by a great number ot rivers.