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Start of the Descriptio in the Leiden manuscript (Шаблон:Circa)

The Descriptio Europae Orientalis ('Description of Eastern Europe') is an anonymous Latin geographical treatise written in France in the spring of 1308.Шаблон:Sfn It was written for Charles, Count of Valois, who was preparing a crusade against the Byzantine Empire in furtherance of his claim to Constantinople and who entered into an alliance with King Stefan Milutin of Serbia.Шаблон:Sfn The author was a Catholic hostile to the Orthodox and to the Serbian Bogomils.Шаблон:Sfn He was probably a Dominican.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn According to one hypothesis, the author was Andreas Hungarus, a Hungarian priest who became the archbishop of Bar in Albania in 1307.Шаблон:Sfn

The countries covered in the Descriptio are Albania, Bohemia, Bulgaria, Halych (Ruthenia), Hungary, Poland, Serbia (Rascia) and the Byzantine Empire. The geography, politics, culture and economy of these kingdoms are described.Шаблон:Sfn It has been argued that his knowledge of Albania and Hungary was better than that of countries further east.Шаблон:Sfn He mislocates Trebizond and Sinope. His written sources included texts like the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais, the Flor des estoires de la terre d'Orient of Hayton of Korykos and a version of the lost Hungarian Urgesta.Шаблон:Sfn

The Descriptio is preserved in five manuscripts, the earliest from the 14th century.Шаблон:Sfn The text has been translated into Hungarian, Romanian and Serbian.Шаблон:Sfn[1] There is an English translation of the section relating to Albania.[2]

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  1. Latin edition with Serbian translation in Шаблон:Harvnb.
  2. In Шаблон:Harvnb.