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Balkan Peninsula. "Thracia". Orig. woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti in Basel, 1564. With title above the map. 14:16 cm.

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Mela, Pomponius

Henric Petri

Basel

1564

Balkan Peninsula. "Thracia". Orig. woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti in Basel, 1564. With title above the map. 14:16 cm (5 1/2 x 6 1/4 inch.).

A miniature Ptolemaic map of Balkan Peninsula (today's  Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania and the western part of Turkey - the Marmara Sea). - Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. AD 45.


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