Iamboli" would seem to correspond to Sumatra
ARRIAN'S WORLD as depicted by ORTELIUS, 1624
- Date
- 1624
- Place
- Asia
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 555 × 675 pixels
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