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pality of Altenburg : twelve miles fGuth-ead of Erfurt, 
and forty-eight welt of Altenburg. Lat. 50.4.3. N. Ion. 
11.4. E. 
KRAN'IGPERG, a town of Auftria : live miles fouth- 
fouth-ead of Gioggnitz. 
KRAN'OVVITZ, a town of Silelia, in the principality 
of Troppau : fix miles fouth-weft Rajribor, and eleven 
north-eaft of Troppau. Lat, 49. 55. N. Ion. 18. E. 
KRAN'TZIUS (Albertos), a native of Hamburgh, and 
a famous hiftorian, who travelled over feveral parts of Eu¬ 
rope, and was made rector of the univerfity of Roftock 
in 148a. He went from thence to Hamburgh in 1508, 
where he was elected dean of the chapter in the cathedral. 
He did many good fervices to that church and city ; and 
was fo famed for his abilities and prudence, that John 
king of Denmark and Frederic duke of Holltein did not 
ifcruple to make him umpire in a difpute they had with 
the Dittnarfi. He wrote feveral good hiltorical works ; 
the molt conliderable of which is an Ecclelialtical Hiftory 
of Saxony, entitled Metropolis, in folio; the belt edition 
"is that of Frankfort. He died in 1517. 
KRAN'TZNACH, a river of Swabia, which runs from 
the Feder See to the Danube. 
KRAPAT'ZITZ, a lake of Croatia : twelve miles welt 
of Bihacz. 
KRAPER'NA, a town of Ruffia, and a didrifl of the 
government of Tula. 
KRAPI'NA, a river of Croatia, which runs into the 
Save eight miles well of Agram. 
KRAPI'NA, a town of Croatia: eight miles weft of 
Aram. 
KRA'PITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz : 
five miles north-wed of Eger. 
KRAP'PITZ, or Krzapkowitz, a town of Silelia, in 
the principality of Oppeln, near the Ober: nine miles 
north-north-ealt of Ober Glogau, and twelve fouth of 
Oppeln. Lat. 50. 25. N. Ion. 17. 52. E. 
KRA'RA, or Char'rar, a town of Arabia, in the 
province of Hedsjas ; fifteen miles eaft of Madura. 
KRAS, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lublin : 
twenty-fix miles fouth of Lublin. 
KR AS'ILO W, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : eighteen 
miles wed of Condantinow. 
KRASKENNINIKO'FIA.yi in botany. SeeAxYRis. 
KRAS'NA, a river of Moldavia, which runs into the 
Birlaf, ten miles fouth of Vallui. 
KRAS'NA. See Kraszna. 
KRASNAHO'RA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Moldaw : fix miles louth-wed of Seltfchan. 
KRAS'NE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : twenty-four miles north-wed of Braclaw. 
KRASNEPO'L, a town of Poland, in Podolia : thirty- 
two miles north-end of Kaminiecz. 
KRASNIEKPA'NI, a town of Rudia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus : 128 miles wed of Adrachan. 
KRASNOBOR'SK, a towm of Rudia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Vologda, on the Dwina : fixty miles north-north- 
wed of Udiug. 
KRAS'NQBROD, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
cf Belcz, in the midd of a fored, where John Sobielki, 
afterwards king of Poland, defeated the Tartars: twenty- 
eight miles wed of Belcz. 
KRAS'NOE, a town of Rudia, in the government of 
Smolenfk : eighty miles fouth of Smolenfk. 
KRASNOHOR'KA, a town of Hungary : twenty-two 
miles wed of Calfovia. 
KRAS'NOI, a town of Rudia, in the government of 
Smolendc : twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Smo- 
lenlk. 
KRASNOIAR', a town of Rudia, in the government 
of Upha: fixteen miles north-north-wed of Upha. 
KRASNOIAR'SK, a town of Rudia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Kolivan, on the Enifei, built in the year 1618 : 
Surrounded with pallifades, final! towers, and lome batte- 
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ries. The chief trade' of the inhabitants is in cattle* 
horfes, and furs. It contains about three hundred and fifty 
houfes : 340 miles ead-north-ead of Kolivan, and joo 
fouth of Enifeifk. Lat. 56. N. Ion. 96.14. E. 
KRASNIORSKAPA, a fortrefs of Rudia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Upha, on the Ural : forty-eight miles ead of 
Orenburg. 
KRASNOIARSKAI'A, a town of Rudia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Irkutfk, near the conflux of the Oka and 
Angara: fixty-four miles weft-fouth-wed of llimlk. 
KRASNIAR'SKOI, a fortrefs ot Rudia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus, on the Ural: ten miles north of Gurev. 
KRASNQKU'T, a town of Rudia, in the government 
of Charkov : forty miles wed-fouth-wed of Charkov. 
KRASNOSAM A RSKAI'A, a fortrefs of Rudia, in the 
government of Simbirfk, on the Samara : 104 miles fouth- 
ead of Simbirfk. 
KRAS'NOSLAW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Chelm. Maximilian archduke of Audria, after he was 
defeated by Zamoyfki in 1538, was confined in this town, 
and liberated on renouncingall claim to the crown of Po¬ 
land : twenty-fix miles fouth-fouth-wed of Chelm. 
KRASUK'KA, a fmall ifland on the ead fide of the 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 65. 22. N. Ion. 24. 46. E. 
KR AS NOSTOBODSK, a town of Ruflia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Penza, on the Mofkva : eighty-four miles 
north-wed of Penza. 
KR ASNOSTOBODSKAI'A, a t/vn of Rudia, in the 
government of Toboifk : thirty-two miles fouth-fouth- 
ead of Turinfk. 
KRASNOUPHIM'SK, a town of Rudia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Perm, on the Upha : ninety-fix miles fouth-eaft 
of Perm. 
KRASOIJAR', a town of Rudia, in the government of 
Caucafus, at the mouth of the Volga: fixteen miles north 
of Adrachan. 
KRASKOI'ECHOLM, a town of Rudia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Tver: fixty miles north of Tver. 
KRAS'SA, a river of Silelia, in the principality of 
Brieg, which runs into the Neifie near Lowen. 
KRAS'SELSHEIM, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Schwarzenberg : four miles fouth-well of Schainfeld. 
KRAS'SUF a town of Poland, in Galicia: thirty-tw'o 
miles fouth-fouth-wed of Halicz. 
KRASUK'KA, a fmall idand on the ead fide of the 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 65. 22. N. Ion. 24. 46. E. 
KRASUPO'L, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : fix miles ead of Braclaw. 
KRASZ'NA, a town of Hungary, on a river of the 
fame name : fixteen miles fouth of Zatmar. 
KRASZ NA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the 
Samos feven miles north of Etfed. 
KRASZO'NA, a town of Hungary : eight miles fouth- 
fouth-ead of Czatza. 
KRATILU'SA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Volhynia: fifty-fix miles north-wed of Zytomiers. 
KRAT'ZE, a town of Pomerania: eight miles wed- 
fouth-wed of Cofslin. 
KR AU'PEN, or Krup'ka, a town of Bohemia, in Leit- 
meritz : fourteen miles wed-north-wed of Leitmeritz, 
Lat. 50.41. N. Ion. 13. 54. E. 
KRAUS, or Crusius (Martin), an eminent philologid, 
born in 1526 at Grebern in the bilhopric of Bamberg, was 
the fon of a Lutheran minider. He received his cladical 
education fird at Ulm, where he acquitted himfelf with fo 
much credit, that the magidrates of the city gave him a 
penfion to adid him in his lludies. Thefe he farther pur- 
fued at Strafourg, where he added theology and the He¬ 
brew language to his former acquilitions. In 1554, he 
undertook the direction of the public fchoo! at Memmin- 
gen, w;hich he rendered celebrated by adopting the me¬ 
thods followed at Stralburg. In 1559, lie was nominated 
to the chair of moral philofophy and the Greek language 
at the univerfity of Tubingen, which thenceforth became 
