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Prima Africae Tabula

The First Map of Africa (Prima Africae Tabula), depicting Tangerine and Caesarian Mauretania (Mauritania Mauritania Tingitana and Mauritania cesariensis Mauritania Caesariensis ), from the edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Cosmographia) printed at Rome.

Date
1478
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
3,200 × 2,133 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Prima Africae Tabula" (1478). Ptolemy, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prima_Africae_Tabula.jpg

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