Taprobana
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Taprobana, Taprobana, and Taprobané was the name by which the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka was known to the ancient Greeks.
Ptolemy's Taprobana as published in Cosmographia Claudii Ptolomaei Alexandrini, 1535
Taprobane in the Catalan Atlas (1375): "Illa Trapobana".
Early world maps
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The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appea
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…Sinhalese Kingdoms. The Ashokan edicts of his missionary activities also refers to the island by the name "Tambapanni". 19th-century reconstruction of Eratosthenes' map of the (for the Greeks) known world, c. 194 BC History Reports of the island's existence were known before the time of Alexander the Great as inferred from Pliny. The treatise De Mundo…
A 1628 reconstruction of Posidonius' ideas about the positions of continents (many details could not have been known by Posidonius)
Modern re-drawing of the Tabula Peutingeriana, from Iberia in the west, to India in the east.
Original Tabula Rogeriana (1154) with south up.