Ancient Greek and Roman name for the Malay Peninsula
Details from Nicolaus Germanus's 1467 copy of a map from Ptolemy's Geography, showing the Golden Chersonese, i.e. the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia in the modern world. The horizontal line represents the Equator, which is misplaced too far north due to its being calculated from the Tropic of Cancer using the Ptolemaic degree, which is only five-sixths of a true degree.
The Golden Chersonese or Golden Khersonese (Ancient Greek: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin: Chersonesus Aurea),[1] meaning the Golden Peninsula, was the name used for the Malay Peninsula by Greek and Roman geographers in classical antiquity, most famously in Claudius Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography.
The GoldenChersonese or Golden Khersonese (Ancient Greek: Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος, Chrysḗ Chersónēsos; Latin: Chersonesus Aurea), meaning the Golden Peninsula...
Ptolemy's Trans-Gangetic India or India beyond the Ganges and the GoldenChersonese of the Greek and Roman geographers and sailors. The Periplus of the...
followed in developing an enormous phantom peninsula east of the GoldenChersonese (Malay Peninsula). The idea to call the globe "apple" may be related...
rampart". Ptolemy's Geographia named a geographical region of the GoldenChersonese as Maleu-kolon, a term thought to derive from Sanskrit malayakolam...
East Malaysia, the Bornean portion of Malaysia Geography of Malaysia GoldenChersonese Malaya (disambiguation) Malayan dollar Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia;...
Geographia that used the name Malayu Kulon for the west coast of GoldenChersonese, and the 7th-century Yijing's account of Malayu. At some point, the...
being visited by a Greek sailor named Alexander and lying beyond the GoldenChersonese (i.e. Malay Peninsula). Roman coins from the reigns of Tiberius to...
shoreline. The expanse formed between it and the Malay Peninsula (the "GoldenChersonese"), he called the Great Gulf. Ptolemy's Geography was translated into...
ISBN 9780806113289. Bird, Isabella (1883). The GoldenChersonese and the Way Thither. Bird, Isabella. The GoldenChersonese and the Way Thither. A Celebration of...
Ocean. He explained that a port city called Kattigara lay beyond the GoldenChersonese (i.e. the Malay Peninsula) and was visited by a Greek sailor named...
Golden Island may refer to: An early name for the GoldenChersonese, the Malay peninsula Golden Island Shopping Centre, a shopping center in Ireland An...
Asia linguistic area Southeast Asian Massif Zomia Sub-regions GoldenChersoneseGolden Triangle Greater Mekong Subregion Vimalin Rujivacharakul; et al...
being visited by a Greek sailor named Alexander and lying beyond the GoldenChersonese (i.e., Malay Peninsula). Roman coins from the reigns of Tiberius to...
astronomer Ptolemy (90–168) identified a place called Sabana at the tip of GoldenChersonese (believed to be the Malay Peninsula) in the second and third century...
similar to Rosa xanthina. It is a probable parent of the hybrids 'GoldenChersonese' and 'Helen Knight'. "Rosa ecae Aitch". Plants of the World Online...
100 – 166 AD: Romano-Chinese relations begin. Ptolemy writes of the GoldenChersonese (i.e. Malay Peninsula) and the trade port of Kattigara, now identified...
trading system between the Western and Eastern worlds through the GoldenChersonese (Malay Peninsula) route in the 1st century. The Sungai Batu site was...
proving bad for the Malays, Chinese and British. In her book "The GoldenChersonese and The Way Thither" (Published 1892 G.P. Putnam's Sons) Victorian...
geographer Ptolemy wrote in his Antonine-era Geography that beyond the GoldenChersonese (Malay Peninsula) was a port city called Kattigara discovered by a...
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