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Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Periplus |
 | | A periplus (literally "a sailing-around' in Greek, roughly corresponding to the Latin navigatio, a "ship-voyage") in the ancient navigation of Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans was a manuscript document that listed in order the ports and coastal landmarks, with approximate distances between, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore. |
| | The Periplus of Hanno the Navigator, a 6th century BCE Carthaginian colonist and explorer, described the coast of Africa from present-day Morocco deep into the Gulf of Guinea. |
| | The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was written by a Romanized Alexandrian in the 1st century CE. |
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