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Antillia ( or Antilia ) is a legendary island that was reputed, during the 15th century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain.
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Antillia and Antilia
Significantly, although included in his map of 1436, the Antillia group is omitted in the later Andrea Bianco map of 1448, although some authors believe that two rectangular islands depicted by Bianco much further south ( in the environs of Cape Verde ), and labelled merely dos ermanos (" two brothers ") may be a reference to Antilia and Satanazes.
Antillia and is
It is from Christian Iberia that the legend of Antillia emerged.
The term Antillia is probably derived from the Portuguese " Ante-Ilha " (" Fore-Island ", " Island of the Other ", or " Opposite Island ").
One theory was that " Antillia " is merely a poorly-transcribed reference to Plato's " Atlantis ".
One more recent hypothesis ( although not finding wide acceptance ), is that Antillia may mean " in front of Thule ".
However, later readings have suggested it should be read as the statues of Arcules ( Hercules ), and that the inscription's reference is probably to the Pillars of Hercules, the non plus ultra of ancient navigation, and not Antillia.
Pizzigano drew Antillia as a large, red, rectangular island, indented with bays and dotted with seven settlements, with the inscription ista ixola dixemo antilia (" this island is called antillia ").
As is evident, on some maps ( e. g. Pareto, Soligo, Behaim ), Antillia appears without Satanazes.
With a few exceptions ( e. g. Ruysch ), Antillia disappears from almost all known maps composed after Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas in the 1490s ( e. g. it is absent on the 1500 map of Juan de la Cosa, the Cantino planisphere of 1502, etc.
One of the chief early descriptions of the heritage of Antillia is inscribed on the globe which the geographer Martin Behaim made at Nuremberg in 1492.
:" The island of Antillia was discovered by the Portuguese, and now when it is sought it is not found.
Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.
Antillia and legendary
It may simply be relocated version of the older legendary island of Satanazes (" Devils " in Portuguese ), that was normally depicted in 15th C. maps in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, just north of Antillia.
Antillia and island
1424 map of Zuane Pizzigano, first clear depiction of Antillia ( large red rectangle ), Ymana ( future Royllo, small blue island to the west ), Satanazes ( large blue rectangle to the north ) and Saya ( future Damnar, umbrella-shaped red isle far north )
Contrary to the earlier descriptions of the two island groups as distinct entities, a 16th century notion relegates Antillia to the island of São Miguel, the largest of the Azores, where a national park centering on two lakes still bears the name Sete Cidades.
The inscription adds that a Spanish vessel sighted the island in 1414, while a Portuguese crew claimed to have landed on Antillia in the 1430s.
As European explorations continued in the Americas, maps reduced the scale of the island Antillia, tending to place it mid-Atlantic, whereas the Seven Cities were attributed to mainland Central or North America, as the various European powers vied for territory in the New World.
The island of Brasil and / or Antillia ( from the Brendan context ) and the island of Sete Cidades, were usual geographic references that persisted in the proto-geography of the Atlantic.
Antillia and was
Some historians believe the legend of Antillia was first insinuated cartographically in the 1367 portolan of the Venetian brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano.
On these maps, Antillia was typically depicted on a similar scale to that of Portugal, lying around 200 miles west of the Azores.
Antillia and 15th
The routine appearance of such a large " Antillia " in 15th century nautical charts has led to speculation that it might represent the American landmass, and has fueled many theories of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
Antillia and Atlantic
After 1492, when the north Atlantic Ocean began to be routinely sailed, and became more accurately mapped, depictions of Antillia gradually disappeared.
Antillia makes its first unambiguous appearance in the 1424 portolan chart of Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano, as part of a group of four islands, lying far in the Atlantic Ocean some 250 leagues west of Portugal, and 200 leagues west of the Azores archipelago ( which also usually depicted in contemporary charts ).
" Menzies proposes an explanation for why the old maps locate Antillia in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Caribbean Sea, arguing that the combination of the Portuguese dead-reckoning navigation technique and the Atlantic ocean currents caused navigators to mis-calculate Antillia's location on their maps.
Antillia and .
As a result, alternative etymological theories of Antillia abound.
# c. 1475 map of Cristoforo Soligo of Venice-omits Satanazes, Antillia labelled as y de sete zitade
The controversial ( possibly fake ) Vinland map, dated by its supporters around 1440, shows the outlines of Antillia and Satanazes islands ( but not the two smaller ones ) under the general label Magnae insulae Beati Brandani ( great islands of St. Brendan ).
Antillia ( and all its companions ) are conspicuously omitted in the map of Gabriel de Vallseca ( 1439 ), the Genoese map ( 1457 ), the Fra Mauro map ( 1459 ) and the maps of Henricus Martellus Germanus ( 1484, 1489 ) and Pedro Reinel ( c. 1485 ).
Around the time of Spain's discovery of South America, Antillia dwindles substantially in size on Behaim's globe and later charts.
Antillia at the middle-right.
Antilia and is
Antilia is the large island on the western edge.
Some twenty leagues west of Antilia is the small blue companion island of Ymana ( the ' Royllo ' of later maps ).
While trying to evade the rampaging forces of BAHRAM, he accidentally boards the Orbital Frame, Jehuty, and thus is forced against his will into the Antilia conflict.
While on her way back to the church during the Antilia Raid, she is discovered by a small group of Raptors, who are timely destroyed by Leo as he comes to her aid in Jehuty.
Viola is seen piloting her Orbital Frame, Neith, and flying towards Antilia Colony, the setting of the first Zone of the Enders game.
Antilia and island
Mukesh Ambani, one of the richest men in the world, built an elaborate home, completed in 2010 and valued at $ 1, 000, 000, 000, and named it Antilia, after the island.
Antilia and was
This line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands ( already Portuguese ) and the islands discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage ( claimed for Spain ), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antilia ( Cuba and Hispaniola ).
Despite learning that he'd died and that a mere boy was now the Runner of Jehuty, she persevered through her grief and helped Leo in his mission to escape Antilia.
Antilia and during
Having lost both parents during their emigration to Antilia, she has grown very close to Leo.
Antilia and .
The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World — Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.
# 1474 " map " of Paolo Toscanelli-map missing, but Antilia referenced in letter.
* Gaffarel, Paul ( 1882 ) " L ' île des Sept Cités et l ' île Antilia ", Congresso Internacional de Americanistas, Actas de la Cuara Reunión, Madrid, Madrid: Fortanet, vol.
Zone of the Enders follows the endeavors of a boy named Leo Stenbuck, a colonist from the Jupiter colony Antilia under attack by BAHRAM.
Battling through the Colony Antilia, Leo rescues civilians, including his friend Celvice, and defends the colony from destruction, defeating the BAHRAM forces and their commanders one by one.
She then joins Leo and ADA ( Jehuty's AI ) as they travel through Antilia on their mission to bring Jehuty to Atlantis.
Initially has his doubts about allowing Leo to pilot Jehuty through Antilia, he eventually comes to recognize Leo as Jehuty's true Runner, admitting that even he would not have been able to defeat Neith and Viola.
: The commanding officer of the BAHRAM forces that were attacking Antilia.
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