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Quarta Africae Tabula
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Quarta Africae Tabula

The Fourth Map of Africa (Quarta Africae Tabula), depicting Saharan Africa (Libya Interior), Ethiopia and Sudan (Aethiopia sub Aegypto), and Subsaharan Africa (Aethiopia Interior), from the edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Cosmographia) printed at Rome. Edited to remove digital watermark.

Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy; Jacobus Angelus
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
750 × 578 pixels

Public domain

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

This status rests on the map's publication history, as researched by Wikimedia Commons. Check it before commercial use.

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

Credit line

"Quarta Africae Tabula". Ptolemy; Jacobus Angelus, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quarta_Africae_Tabula_(1478).png

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