Turkey, Cyprus

Fries, 1522 (1535) :
Tabula I Asiae.
Some splitting at center. 11.5 x 18 inches. $650.

Asia Minor, present-day Turkey, including most of Cyprus. This was the first map in Ptolemy's section on Asia, which was organized roughly west-to-east.

Among the places marked on the map is the ancient city of "Philadelphia", the spelling identical to that used for the modern American city.