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File:Map Diego Ribero 1529.jpg

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c. 1887 reproduction on two sheets (79×61 and 66×61 cm) of the 1529 Propaganda world map, believed to be a reproduction by Diogo Ribeiro of the Spanish Padron Real (Royal Standard Map) held at the Seville Casa de Contratacion (House of Trade). It shows Spanish uncertainty regarding the Pacific Coast of the Americas, the Spice Islands, and the exact details of locations around the Indian Ocean, while adding additional information from the expeditions of Magellan and others. Also known as the 1529 Weimar map, 1529 Ribeiro Planisphere, Second Borgian Map, or Carta universal en que se contiene todo lo que del mundo se ha descubierto fasta agora, hizola Diego Ribero cosmographo de su magestad, año de 1529, e[n] Sevilla / La cual se devide en dos partes conforme A la capitulacion que hizieron los catholicos Reyes de españa y el rrey don Juan de portogual En Tordesillas Año de 1494.


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Date 1529
c. 1887
Source National Library of Australia, from an original in the Museum of the Propaganda (Palazzo di Propaganda Fide) in the Vatican City, believed to be a reproduction of the era's Padron Real in the Casa de Contratacion in Seville, Kingdom of Castile, Spain.
Author Diego Ribero and William Griggs. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Jalo using CommonsHelper.
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