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Thursday, August 5, 2010

"Catara"

If you haven't already, check out the World Digital Library site for some incredible old maps of the Arabian Peninsula. There you will find, among other things, inaccurate renderings of a place called "Catara" generally somewhere near the Gulf waters. The snippet above is from a map created in 1578.
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