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Map of the Old World in 900 AD. Name Capital(s) State type Existed Location Abbasid Caliphate: Baghdad: Empire: ... 9th century – 1620 AD: Europe: West Carantania ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
The 9th century was a period from 801 (represented by the Roman numerals DCCCI) through 900 (CM) in accordance with the Julian calendar. The Carolingian Renaissance and the Viking raids occurred within this period.
A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) [1]
Al-Mamun also commanded the production of a large map of the world, which has not survived, [3]: 61–63 though it is known that its map projection type was based on Marinus of Tyre rather than Ptolemy. [4]: 193 Islamic cartographers inherited Ptolemy's Almagest and Geography in the 9th century.
The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC. [3] The best known Babylonian world map, however, is the Imago Mundi of 600 BC. [ 4 ]
The 9th century BC started the first day of 900 BC and ended the last day of 801 BC. It was a period of great change for several civilizations. In Africa, ...
The ninth leaf contains a circular world map measuring 25 cm (9.8 in) in circumference. ... Dieppe maps, a series of 16th-century world maps produced in Dieppe, France