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    The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial...
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    He created the most detailed and accurate map of the world up until that time, the Fra Mauro map. Mauro was a monk of the Camaldolese Monastery of St...
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    The Fra Mauro formation (or Fra Mauro Highlands) is a formation on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo...
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  • Fra Mauro may refer to: Fra Mauro (crater), a crater on the Moon Fra Mauro formation, landing site of Apollo 14, named after Fra Mauro crater Fra Mauro...
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    Fra Mauro is the worn remnant of a walled lunar plain. It is part of the surrounding Fra Mauro formation, being located to the northeast of Mare Cognitum...
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  • early 15th century. He was one of the sources used to create the 1450 Fra Mauro map, which indicated that there was a sea route from Europe around Africa...
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    cartography, leading to the introduction of the Catalan Atlas and the Fra Mauro map. Marco Polo was born around 1254 in Venice, but the exact date and place...
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  • also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459. Mainly a decoration piece, the Borgia map is a world map made sometime in the early...
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    Cape of Good Hope (category Articles containing OSM location maps)
    died on the journey. In the 1450 Fra Mauro map, the Indian Ocean is depicted as connected to the Atlantic. Fra Mauro puts the following inscription by...
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  • the first time on a European map with the Fra Mauro map in 1457, although it appears much earlier on Chinese and Korean maps such as the Gangnido. Following...
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    story is not clear. The map later disappeared with its owners; a Jewish family from Heidelberg. Ancient world maps Fra Mauro map 1421 hypothesis De Smet...
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    Amazons (section Maps)
    North (on the bottom) on Edilus fluuius maximus (Volga). In medieval Fra Mauro map country Ancient Greek: Ἀμαζόnia, romanized: Amazonia placed on the Middle...
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    there are even serpents so large that they could eat an ox whole.") The Fra Mauro Map (c. 1450) shows the "Island of Dragons" (Italian: Isola de' dragoni)...
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  • world Fra Mauro map (1459), the territory of Novgorod-Moscow Rus' between Volga and White Sea is called White Russia (Rossia Biancha). This map gives...
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    European exploration of Africa from the 15th century, maps of Africa became more precise. The Fra Mauro map of 1459 shows a more detailed picture of Africa...
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  • (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513)...
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    Apollo 14 (redirect from Statio fra mauro)
    program. Shepard and Mitchell made their lunar landing on February 5 in the Fra Mauro formation – originally the target of Apollo 13. During the two walks on...
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    Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 Fra Mauro map of the world, which says that the roc "carries away an elephant or any...
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    Biancho in Venice, 1436." Andrea Bianco also collaborated with Fra Mauro on the Fra Mauro world map of 1459. The first page, or Tavola 1, shows a diagram of...
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  • Edward Ullendorff has argued in support of this identification. In the Fra Mauro map of 1459, the Nile is called Gion, giving more credence to this claim...
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    Mappa mundi (category Map types)
    massive map of Fra Mauro, may be seen as hybrids, incorporating Portolan-style coastlines into the frame of a traditional mappa mundi. Maps portal World...
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    A copy of the Fra Mauro map was commissioned by Afonso V in 1457. Finished on 24 April 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the...
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    general location of Tibet was clearly known as Thebet appears on the Fra Mauro map in close proximity to its correct location. The first documented Europeans...
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    I (1382–1413). Its name was first used in a European publication in Fra Mauro map made in Venice 1457-59, written as Lalabeda. A Portuguese priest, Francisco...
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    which draws heavily on Thai culture and architecture. A Thailand-themed map named "Ayutthaya" appears in the video game Overwatch. Ayutthaya was featured...
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    1430: Abu-l Fida Ishak, Muthir al Ghiram (The Exciter of Desire) 1459: Fra Mauro map 1470: Al-Suyuti: "Syria is divided into five provinces, or sections:—...
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    of the name." The earliest recorded mention of Begemder was on the Fra Mauro map, (c.1460), where it is described as a kingdom. While Emperor Lebna Dengel...
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    sought downstream of "New Sarai". This might be confirmed by a 15th-century map from the Franciscan monastery of Lesina (Hvar), which places Saray (apparently...
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  • Of Fra Mauro, Cartographer To The Court Of Venice". The novel is based on the journals of the 15th-century monk Fra Mauro, who created a detailed map of...
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    harder-to-interpret groups) are mentioned in the "Province of Russia" on the Venetian Fra Mauro Map (ca. 1450). Several documents mention the Meshchera concerning the Kazan...
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