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'■•) That is, apart from the costs of crossing the Dniester, which, as one can easily understand, were much higher in Białystok than in Tygin.

'^) I.e. to the Turks, or rather: to the countries subject to Turkish rule.

'*) Iasi, in Romanian. I?i, once (for the first time under Prince Alexander Lopushnian, 1552 - 15G8) the capital of Moldavian princes, is still today, after the unification of Moldova with Multans in 1859, one of the largest and most beautiful Romanian cities.

■'') Having compared the places relating to the transport and sale of cloth, we come to the conclusion that cloth items, imported by Lviv merchants, etc., were one of the most important and most sought-after commercial items in Moldova.

'®) By the word "Bassarabia" the issuer of the document means not today's Russian Bessarabia, but in general the countries subject to the rule of the Basarabia family, and therefore also today's Russian Bessarabia (but only its southern parts), and Multans and the transalpine principalities belonging to it.

•3) More details about the meaning of the word "Basaraby" in Moldavian and Multan documents. primarily in Hażdeu's Critical History (Istoria criticii a Romanilorii, Bucuresci 1875) vol. I. pag. 61—83; also in Romilnische Studien Róslera, Leipzig, 1871, pag. 296 sqq.; and part also in Bjiaxo-6oarapcKiH rpaMarti Wenelina, pag. 1 - 4; in BocnoMnHaHifl o EecapaÓin Weltmana (in the magazine. CoBpcMeHHHKT.) Petersb. 1837, July. 3.234; in Gesch. des ung. Reiches u. s. Nebenl. Engla, IV. 1. 161 etc.

^'') Bania, after rum. (according to Hażdeua Archiva istoric. II. 173) Bala is a town in the former Suceava County, currently Fellicze County (Falticeni), on the middle course of the Moldava River.

^') Moldawica, after Rum. Moldavita, a town and monastery in the southwestern part of Bukovina.

'^^) Terch=:magyar. terh, terheleni (currently Miklosicza, Fremdwórter, pag. 61), means a bundle or knot with any object and is still used today among Ruthenians having trade relations with Hungarians: ot. TepxaMH HTarric with nodes; kohh n^yTi. you. TepxaMn=:horses go with weights etc.

^^) Brasov, in German Kronstadt, in the south-eastern part of Transylvania, the main city of Brasov County.

^*) Tanks, go for it. Bacaa, the main town in the district of the same name on the lower course of the Bystrzyca, a branch of the Seret.

^*) Totrusz, for rum. Trotuêu, a town in the southern part of the district of the same name.

2®) Seret, a district town in Bukovina, on the river of the same name; once the seat of the pyrkalab, i.e. the starosta of Moldavia.

") Dorohuń, in Romanian: Dorohoiu, the main city in the district of the same name, on the Jijia River, a branch of the Prut River; once also the seat of the Moldavian starosta. And

^^) Roman, also Romanów, after Rum. Romagna, the main city in the district of the same name, on the Moldava (Moldova) river, a branch of the Seret; once the seat of Romanesque bishops.

^^) German, also Niemcza, after Rum. Nemtu, a town and monastery in the northern part of Niemczów County, i.e. (according to the Putno Chronicle) German.

') But it goes without saying that the tolls specified above are not abolished as a result of this. Because if this were the case, a contradiction would arise which should by no means exist in documents of this type. And that the issuer of the document did not want this contradiction, he proved it best by interjecting the words: And then let them go to the main Suceava toll. Moreover, by specifying these items in the tolls column to be paid in Chernivtsi, the issuer of the document he said that he also hated the Chernivtsi toll.

*') Braila, after rum. Braila on the lower Danube, in the district of the same name, near Galach.

^-) Berlad, for rum. Berladu, the main town in the district of the same name, on the lower course of the Berladu River, a branch of the Seret.

^*) Muntański means the same as Multan, because it comes from rum. Muntenia from Poland Multans.

^*) Starosta, in Rum. parkalab. meant in Moldova more or less the same thing as the starosta castellan in Poland, as evidenced by the Order of senatorial and land offices of the Moldavian and Multan lands, which, together with the songs of Miron Kostyn (according to the manuscript from 1684), was published for the first time in the Writings of Count Józef. Dunina Borkowski, Lviv, 1856, pp. 269-273, and for the second time, but only in Romanian translation, in Archiva istorica Hażdeua, vol. I. 159-172.