portolan

portolan
an early chart of European navigable waters

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  • portolan — portòlān m DEFINICIJA v. portulan ETIMOLOGIJA vidi portulan …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • Portolan — Weltkarte des Juan de la Cosa (1500) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Portolan — Portulan Un portulan de 1541 Un portulan (dans beaucoup de langues portolan), au XIVe siècle ou plus tard, était une sorte de carte nautique servant essentiellement à repérer les ports et connaître les dan …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Portolan — Por|to|lan: ↑Portulan. Por|tu|lan, Portolan, der; s, e [ital. portolano < mlat. portulanus, zu lat. portus = Hafen]: mittelalterliche Navigationsanleitung für Seefahrer …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Portolan chart — A portolan (derived from the Latin word portus , port) is an early modern European navigation chart, dating from the thirteenth century or later, in manuscript, usually with rhumb lines, shorelines and place names.The portolan combined the exact… …   Wikipedia

  • portolan chart — also called  Harbour finding Chart, Compass Chart, or Rhumb Chart,         navigational chart of the European Middle Ages (1300–1500). The earliest dated navigational chart extant was produced at Genoa by Petrus Vesconte in 1311 and is said to… …   Universalium

  • Portolan — Por|to|lan vgl. ↑Portulan …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • portolan — [ pɔ:təlan] (also portolano ˌpɔ:tə lα:nəʊ) noun (plural portolans or portolanos) historical a book of sailing directions with charts and descriptions of harbours and coasts. Origin C19: from Ital. portolano, from porto harbour …   English new terms dictionary

  • portolan — por·to·lan …   English syllables

  • portolan — n. (also portolano) (pl. portolans or portolanos) hist. a book of sailing directions with charts, descriptions of harbours, etc. Etymology: It. portolano f. porto PORT(1) …   Useful english dictionary

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