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To: bunkerhill7; SunkenCiv; All

Hiberia is near Mesopotamia and Babilonia. On the other hand Hibernia, and Brittannia with Lundona are in the lower left hand corner. There are many places correctly near one another but other seriously out of place. Europe is seriously undersized out of position relative to Turkey The map would make more sense to modern eyes if it were rotated 90 degrees to put Ireland and Briton in the upper left hand corner. Is this a complete work, or someone’s attempt to reassemble fragments? Who created this?


44 posted on 04/25/2016 12:49:08 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Turning it 90 degrees clockwise (n at the top) makes it look, well, okay by the standards of when it was made, apart from putting Hiberia and Campagna up against Mesopotamia. OTOH, the names may just have been similar and their use for those areas fell out of fashion. In the classical world, the Erythraean Sea was the Indian Ocean, plus its inlets like the Persian Gulf and Red Sea — but there was a small Aegean Island called Erythraea at the same time.


45 posted on 04/25/2016 6:41:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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