Asia
by Library Of Congress, Geography And Map Division
Title
Asia
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Library Of Congress, Geography And Map Division
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Asia. 17th-century map of Asia and the new lands being discovered by European explorers in the Far East. The title (top) names Persia, Asia, Tartaria (Tartary) and China. Places shown include Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Anatolia (Turkey), Armenia, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, Persia, India, regions of Central Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Borneo, the Philippines, and some of the islands of the Western Pacific. This map is from 'Taboas geraes de toda a navegacao' (1630), an atlas produced by Portuguese cartographer Joao Teixeira Albernaz I (active 1602-1648). Albernaz was the most prolific Portuguese cartographer of the seventeenth century.
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