Cf. Muralt's Essai de Chronogr.
Byzant., sub anno 882: 'Les Slavons maltraites par les guerriers Nemetzi
de Swiatopolc' (King of Great Moravia, 870-894). Sophocles' Greek Lexicon
of the Roman and Byzantine periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100: 'Nemitzi'
Austrians, Germans. This name is met also in the Mohammedan authors.
According to the Masalak-al-Absar, of the first half of the 14th century
(transl. by Quatremere, N. et Ext. XXII. 284), the country of the
Kipchaks extended (eastward) to the country of the Nemedj, which
separates the Franks from the Russians. The Turks still call the Germans
Niemesi; the Hungarians term them Nemet." - H.C.]
[Illustration: Figure of a Tartar under the feet of Henry II, Duke of
Silesia, Cracow, and Poland, from the tomb at Breslau of that Prince,
killed in battle with the Tartar host at Liegnitz, 9th April, 1241.]
[1] This doubt arises also where Abulfeda speaks of Majgaria in the
far north, "the capital of the country of the Madjgars, a Turk race"
of pagan nomads, by whom he seems to mean the Bashkirs. (Reinaud's
Abulf. I. 324.) For it is to the Bashkir country that the Franciscan
travellers apply the term Great Hungary, showing that they were led to
believe it the original seat of the Magyars. (Rubr.
