324) notices the Madjgars; it would, however, seem that he
applies this name to the Bashkirs in Asia. The name Madjar occurs also
in Rashid's record. In the Chinese and Mongol annals of the 13th century
the Hungarians are termed Madja-rh." (Bretschneider, Med. Res. I. pp.
326-327.) - H.C.]
ZIC is Circassia. The name was known to Pliny, Ptolemy, and other writers
of classic times. Ramusio (II. 196 v) gives a curious letter to Aldus
Manutius from George Interiano, "Della vita de' Zychi chiamati
Circassi," and a great number of other references to ancient and
mediaeval use of the name will be found in D'Avezac's Essay, so often
quoted (p. 497).
GOTHIA is the southern coast of the Crimea from Sudak to Balaklava and the
mountains north of the latter, then still occupied by a tribe of the
Goths. The Genoese officer who governed this coast in the 15th century
bore the title of Capitanus Gotiae; and a remnant of the tribe still
survived, maintaining their Teutonic speech, to the middle of the 16th
century, when Busbeck, the emperor's ambassador to the Porte, fell in with
two of them, from whom he derived a small vocabulary and other
particulars. (Busbequii Opera, 1660, p. 321 seqq.; D'Avezac, pp.
498-499; Heyd., II. 123 seqq.; Cathay, pp. 200-201.)
GAZARIA, the Crimea and part of the northern shore of the Sea of Azov,
formerly occupied by the Khazars, a people whom Klaproth endeavours to
prove to have been of Finnish race.
