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Babylonian Map of the World (flat-earth diagram on a clay tablet, c. 600 BC); Tabula Rogeriana (1154); Psalter world map (1260); Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material)
The detailed information on the southeastern coast of Africa, was likely brought by an Ethiopian embassy to Rome in the 1430s. Fra Mauro also probably relied on Arab sources. Arab influence is suggested by the north-south inversion of the map, an Arab tradition exemplified by the 12th-century maps of Muhammad al-Idrisi .
Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png – Version of v4 with thin lines to join areas owned by the same country for one-click colouring. Image:BlankMap-World-v5-EU.png – Version of v5 with EU as one country. Image:BlankMap-World-v6.png – Version of v4 with dots for dependencies as well as sovereign territories.
The only part of Africa well known in antiquity was the coast of North Africa, described in Greek periplus from the 6th century BC. Hellenistic era geographers defined Ancient Egypt as part of Asia , taking the boundary of Asia and Egypt to lie at the Catabathmus Magnus (the escarpment of Akabah el-Kebir in western Egypt).
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Map of Africa for use on Wikivoyage. Multilingual: in separate layers data for language codes: en, eo, fr, nl, ru, uk. Date: 15 April 2007: Source: Own work based on the blank map of Africa: Author: Nick Roux and Peter Fitzgerald, adapted by Cacahuate, Burmesedays, Joelf, Globe-trotter, LtPowers and Piet-c. Other versions: PNG files: English ...
Update, splitting Sudan into Sudan (Northern Africa) and Southern Sudan (Eastern Africa). (Actually uploading the new version this time) 12:50, 9 March 2015: 1,200 × 1,230 (91 KB) LukeSurl: Update, splitting Sudan into Sudan (Northern Africa) and Southern Sudan (Eastern Africa). 20:42, 14 February 2007: 1,200 × 1,230 (91 KB) Mvc