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File:Hereford Mappa Mundi 1300.jpg, edited, some details explained.
0 - At the center of the map: Jerusalem, above it: the crucifix.
1 - The Paradise, surrounded by a wall and a ring of fire.
2 - The Ganges and its delta.
3 - The fabulous Island of Taphana, sometimes (possibly mis-)interpreted as Sri Lanka or Sumatra.
4 - Rivers Indus and Tigris.
5 - The Caspian Sea, and the land of Gog and Magog
6 - Babylon and the Euphrat.
7 - The Persian Gulf.
8 - The Red Sea (painted in Red).
9 - Noah's Ark.
10 - The Dead Sea, Sodom and Gomorrha, with River Jordan, coming from Sea of Galiliee; above: Lot's wife.
11 - Egypt with the River Nile.
12 - River Nile [?], or possibly an allusion to the equatorial Ocean; far outside: a land of freaks, possibly the Antipodes.
13 - The Azov Sea with Rivers Don and Dnjepr; above: the Golden Fleece.
14 - Constantinoples; left of it the Danube's delta.
15 - The Aegean Sea.
16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria's Lighthouse.
17 - A person skiing [?].
18 - Greece with Mt. Olymp, Athens and Corinth
19 - Misplaced Crete with Minotaur's circular labyrinth.
20 - The Adriatic Sea; Italy with Rome, honored by a popular heptameter: Roma caput mundi tenet orbis frena rotundi [Rome, the head, holds the reins of the world].
21 - Sicily, and Carthage, opposing Rome, right of it.
22 - Scotland.
23 - England.
24 - Ireland.
25 - The Baleares.


26 - The Strait of Gibraltar (the Pillars of Hercules).
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Hereford-Karte, File:Hereford Mappa Mundi 1300.jpg, bearbeitet.
0 - Jerusalem.
1 - Das Paradies.
2 - Ganges und Gangesdelta.
3 -
4 - Indus und Tigris.
5 - Die Gegend des Kaspischen Meeres.
6 - Babylon und der Euphrat / Der Turmbau zu Babel.
7 - Der Persische Golf.
8 - Das Rote Meer (in Rot gemalt).
9 - Noahs Arche.
10 - Das Tote Meer mit den versunkenen Städten Sodom und Gomorrha, in das aus dem See Genezareth der Jordan fließt – darüber Lots Weib, sich umdrehend.
11 - Ägypten und der Nil.
12 -
13 - Darüber: Das Goldene Vlies.
14 - Konstantinopel; links daneben das Donaudelta.
15 - Das Ägäisches Meer / Troja.
16 - Oversized delta of the Nile with Alexandria's Lighthouse.
17 - Ein Skiläufer in Skandinavien.
18 - Griechenland.
19 - Kreta (grob falsch verzeichnet) mit Labyrinth.
20 - Das Adriatische Meer; Italien mit Rom.
21 - Sizilien und Karthago.
22 - Schottland.
23 - England.
24 - Irland.
25 - Die Balearen.


26 - Die Säulen des Herkules (die Straße von Gibraltar).
Date 20070226-28
Source File:Hereford Mappa Mundi 1300.jpg, notes in: 1.; 2.; 3.; [1].
Author WolfgangW.
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