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Voigtland.] In Latin, Voigtlandia, Voigtia, or Voitlandia, also called Terra Advocatorum. The name is said to be derived from an inscription in verse on the wall of the ancient castle of Voigtburg:—

If what the ancient poet wrote upon the wall be true, the Roman general, Drusus, must have built that castle of Voigtburg about the year 60 of the Christian ra, and called it arcem prtoriam. As the words prtor and advocatus have the same meaning, the governors (or Voigts) were afterwards called advocati; and this may account for the fact, that the whole country went afterwards by the name of Terra advocatorum, in German Voigtland.

The Voigtland is situated in Upper Saxony, and is bordered on the north by the principality of Altenburg audand [sic] the district called Osterland, on the east by Bohemia