Golden Chersonese
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The Golden Chersonese or Golden Khersonese, meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Pto
Martin of Bohemia's Erdapfel
Geography (Ptolemy)
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The Geography, also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Ro
Golden Chersonese
…was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography. The earliest references to a fabulous land of gold that could be interpreted as places in Southeast Asia may be found in Indian literature. In the…
A 3rd century papyrus fragment of Ptolemy's Table of Noteworthy Cities
Stemma codicum of the Geography.