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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

Note 303 — APPENDIX B.

Ernest Georg Ravenstein translation

The Strait of Romania is the Bosporus, ancient cartographers (Ortelius and others) very properly writing “Romania” for the Turkish “Rum-ili”, instead of the corrupt “Roumelia” of most modern authors.

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