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Detail of a plain unadorned 32-point wind rose (or compass rose) on an anonymous Genoese portolan chart, c.1325-50 (held by the Library of Congress, Washington DC). As is standard on portolan charts, the rhumb lines emanating from the center are color-coded: black for the eight primary winds (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW),green for the eight half-winds (NNE, ENE, etc.) and red for the sixteen quarter-winds.

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DescriptionPortolan windrose (plain).jpg	Detail of a plain unadorned 32-point wind rose (or compass rose) on an anonymous Genoese portolan chart, c.1325-50 (held by the Library of Congress, Washington DC). As is standard on portolan charts, the rhumb lines emanating from the center are color-coded: black for the eight primary winds (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW),green for the eight half-winds (NNE, ENE, etc.) and red for the sixteen quarter-winds.
Date	23 June 2011, 18:11 (UTC)
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Author	Mediterranean_chart_fourteenth_century2.jpg: anonymous, probably Genoan derivative work: Walrasiad (talk)

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- 2009-01-18T02:53:17Z Durova 5486x4009 (18079272 Bytes) {{Information |Description=Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest origi

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current	19:01, 28 June 2011		397 × 447 (87 KB)	Walrasiad	Better compass rose from the same anonymous Genoese map (132-50).
	18:17, 23 June 2011		472 × 495 (121 KB)	Walrasiad	{{Information \|Description=Detail of a plain unadorned 32-point wind rose (or compass rose) on an anonymous Genoese portolan chart, c.1325-50 (held by the Library of Congress, Washington DC). As is standard on portolan charts, the rhumb lines emanating f

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