Regio Patalis is Latin for “the region of Patala”, that is the region around the ancient city of Patala at the mouth of the Indus River in Sindh, Pakistan. The historians of Alexander the Great state that the Indus parted into two branches at the city of Patala before reaching the sea, and the island thus formed was called Patalene, the district of Patala. Alexander constructed a harbour at Patala.[1][2]
City of Patala below Alexandria on the Indus
While the Patala was well known to mariners and traders of the Ancient Mediterranean, by the European Middle Ages, mapmakers no longer knew its location. Regio Patalis appeared on late 15th and early 16th century maps and globes in a variety of increasingly erroneous locations, further and further east and south of India. It even appeared on some maps as a promontory of Terra Australis.
^Dani, Sindhu-Sauvira 1981, p. 37.
^Eggermont, Alexander's Campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan 1975, p. 13.
RegioPatalis is Latin for “the region of Patala”, that is the region around the ancient city of Patala at the mouth of the Indus River in Sindh, Pakistan...
Fine's RegioPatalis and Brasielie Regio. On the Dieppe Maps, the great promontory of JAVE LA GRANDE (Greater Java) extends, like the RegioPatalis, northward...
an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the RegioPatalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching...
an eight-leaved wall map of the world, on which he identified the RegioPatalis with Locach as a northward extension of the Terra Australis, reaching...
the Australian Map Circle, No. 62, 2009, pp. 1–50. Robert J. King, "RegioPatalis: Australia on the map in 1531?", The Portolan, Issue 82, Winter 2011...
maps of Gerardus Mercator and the Dieppe cartographers. With them, the RegioPatalis, shown as a promontory of the Terra Australis on Fine’s map, was identified...
the Australian Map Circle, No. 62, 2009, pp. 1–50. Robert J. King, "RegioPatalis: Australia on the map in 1531?", The Portolan, Issue 82, Winter 2011...
lazuli, to be carried overland to Egypt. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea RegioPatalis Banbhore Rawlinson, H. G. (2001). Intercourse Between India and the...
reached Australia]. Broc noted that the Dieppe cartographers replaced the RegioPatalis of Oronce Fine with a Grande Jave and a Petite Jave, more or less attached...
the R. grande. That is, Brouscon, like Mercator, identified Fine's RegioPatalis not with Java Major but with Locach. He published his Brouscon's Almanachs...
Tiastani (...) Minnagara". — Ptolemy Geographia, Book Seven, Chapter I RegioPatalis "Menander became the ruler of a kingdom extending along the coast of...
the Australian Map Circle, No. 62, 2009, p. 1–50. Robert J. King, "RegioPatalis: Australia on the map in 1531?", The Portolan, Issue 82, Winter 2011...
which much cotton cloth is brought down to Barygaza." Periplus, Chap. 41 RegioPatalis Patan Strabo 11.11.1 Full text Source Bibliography v t e v t e...
fully known”). Desceliers seems to have identified the promontory of RegioPatalis on Fine's Terra Australis with Marco Polo and Ludovico di Varthema's...
the Australian Map Circle, No. 62, 2009, pp. 1–50. Robert J. King, "RegioPatalis: Australia on the map in 1531?", The Portolan, Issue 82, Winter 2011...
almost beyond measure)”. Rotz apparently identified this “Java patalis” with the RegioPatalis, a huge promontory of the Terra Australis, depicted on the...
his globe's depiction of an Antarctic continent, called by him Brasilie Regio. His continent is based, however tenuously, on the report of an actual voyage:...
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