Treaty of Tordesillas
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Cr
Front page of the Portuguese-owned treaty; this page is written in Spanish
The convent in Setúbal, where the Portuguese king John II ratified the treaty in 1494.
Various Spanish and Portuguese reckonings of the Tordesillas line (1495–1545) marked along the Brazilian coast, from Harrisse
Antillia
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Antillia or Antilia is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the n
Treaty of Tordesillas
…already Portuguese) and the islands visited by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Castile and León), thought then to be Cipangu and Antillia, but in fact Cuba and Hispaniola; the treaty itself does not mention Cipangu or Antillia. The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands…
Andea Bianco, 1436. Antillia at right
Toscanelli's notions of the geography of the Atlantic Ocean. Antillia at the middle-right.