Image: Cantinomap redsea persiangulf
Description: Enlarged detail showing Red Sea and Persian Gulf as viewed in 1502 in the Cantino World Map. Most important manuscript map surviving from the early Age of Discovery, the Cantino World Map is named for Alberto Cantino, an Italian diplomatic agent in Lisbon who obtained it in 1502 for the Duke of Ferrara. It incorporates extensive new geographical information based on four series of voyages: Columbus to the Caribbean, Pedro Álvarez Cabral to Brazil, Vasco de Gama followed by Cabral to eastern Africa and India, and the brothers Corte-Real to Greenland and Newfoundland. Except for Columbus, all had sailed under the Portuguese flag.
Title: Cantinomap redsea persiangulf
Credit: CantinoPlanisphere.png
Author: CantinoPlanisphere.png: Anonymous. derivative work: Uxbona (talk)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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