Tab. XII. Asiae. Taprobanam
The 12th Map of Asia (Tab. XII. Asiae), depicting Sri Lanka (Taprobana), from a reprint of Gerard Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's Geography.
- Date
- 1730
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Ptolemy
- Place
- Sri Lanka
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 800 × 782 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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