174 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



fix years before whofe death Bohemia was ho- 

 noured with the title of a kingdom by Henry IV. 

 and UladiQaus reigned in quality of king. There 

 were twenty kings his fucceflbrs to the year 1307, 

 when Henry duke of Carinthia, and king of Bo- 

 hemia, was depoled. ^From that time feventeen 

 kings and one queen ofthehoufe of Luxemburg 

 and that of Auftria, have reigned in Bohemia ; 

 the firft of whojn was John of Luxemburg, fort 

 of the emperor Henry VII. At this time Bo- 

 hemia makes part of the hereditary eftates of the 

 houfe of Auftria. 



XXII. XIV. The Hijlory of the Kings of Hun- 

 gary. That country which is now named Hun- 

 gary, was formerly called Pannonia. The Huns, 

 a Gothic people, eftablifhed themfelves there, 

 and gave the country their name. Attila made 

 his city the capital of Sicambia, and gave it the 

 name of Buda, which was that of his brother. 

 The Huns gave themfelves very little trouble 

 about writing their hiftory. We know that there 

 were at firft dukes in Hungary, and that in the 

 year 1000, it was erefted into a kingdom in fa- 

 vour of Stephen, called the Saint. That king 

 had fixty-fix fuccefTors, down to the prefent day ; 

 and Hungary alfo makes part of the hereditary 

 dominions of the auguft houfe of Auftria. 



XXIII. XV. rhe Hiftory of Poland. This 

 country was anciently named Sarmatia, and its 

 inhabitants Sarmates. We have only a confufed 



account, 



