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Roman Empire 1st Century A.D. – 100

Categories: 100, Europe, Italy, North Africa, Roman Empire

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  • Title: Roman Empire 1st Century A.D.
  • Date: 100
  • Web Source: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps of Europe
  • Original Source: An Historical Atlas Containing a Chronological Series of One Hundred and Four Maps, at Successive Periods, from the Dawn of History to the Present Day by Robert H. Labberton, sixth edition, 1884

Europe and the East Roman Empire – 526-600

Categories: 526, 600, Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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Routes of the Leaders of the First Crusades – 1096-1099

Categories: 1097, 1098, 1099, Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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Europe and the Mediterranean Lands about 1097

Categories: 1097, Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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Development of Christianity to 1300

Categories: 1300, Africa, Asia, Christianity, Europe

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MAVRITANIA NVOVA TAVOLA [Mauritania] – 1561

Categories: 1561, Africa, Mauritania

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  • Title: MAVRITANIA NVOVA TAVOLA [Mauritania]
  • Date: 1561
  • Cartographer: Girolamo Ruscelli
  • Original Source: Italian translation of Ptolemy's Atlas La Geograpfia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nouvamente Tradatta Di Greco in Italiano
  • Publication Date: 1575
  • Web Source: University of Florida Map and Imagery Library - Africa

Carta del navigare / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese … ; Claudi Ducheti formis.

Categories: 1569, Africa, Europe, Middle East, North Africa

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  • Title: Carta del navigare / del s. Giacomo Home[m] portughese ... ; Claudi Ducheti formis.
  • Date: 1569
  • Cartographer: Diogo Homem
  • Web Source: Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps

AFRICAE PROPRIAE TABVLA, In qua, Punica regina uides: Tyrios, et Agenoris vrbem

Categories: 1590, Africa, North Africa

africae prop

AEGYPTVS ANTIQVA. Terra suis contenta bonis, non indiga mercis Aut Iouis, in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo. Lucanus 8.

Categories: 1595, Africa, Egypt

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  • Title: AEGYPTVS ANTIQVA. Terra suis contenta bonis, non indiga mercis Aut Iouis, in solo tanta est fiducia Nilo. Lucanus 8.
  • Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
  • Original Source: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
  • Publication Date: 1595
  • Web Source: University of Florida Map and Imagery Library - Africa

GVINEA [Guinea] – 1625

Categories: 1625, Africa, Guinea

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