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Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao

João Teixeira Albernaz's 1630 "General Chart for All Navigation" (Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegação), presumably based on the Portuguese royal standard map (Padrão Real) of the era, with the demarcation lines established by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas and 1529 Treaty of Zaragoza marked in the western Atlantic and Pacific. Now held by the in Washington, DC, USA. Marked at top "First Demarcation between Castile and Portugal" (Primero de Demarcaciones entre Castilla y Portugall) and "Map of the Whole World" (MAPA de TODO EL MUNDO). Lines labeled "Line of Demarcation of the Crowns" (Linha da demarcacao das Coroas).

Date
1630
Place
the Treaty of Tordesillas
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
9,200 × 5,481 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao" (1630). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taboas_Geraes_de_Toda_a_Navegacao.tif

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