page_title: Borgia map
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Borgia map / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail showing northwest Iberian Peninsula on the Borgia map.Galego: Detalle do noroeste da Península Ibérica no mapa de Borgia.
context_page_description: Mainly a decoration piece, the Borgia map is a world map made sometime in the early 15th century, and engraved on a metal plate. Its "workmanship and written explanations make it one of the most precious pieces of the history of cartography".
context_section_description: Róna-Tas, András (1982). Chuvash studies. p. 185. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Falchetta, Piero (2006). Fra Mauro's world map: with a commentary and translations of the inscriptions. p. 37. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Seaver, Kirsten A. (2004). Maps, myths, and men: the story of the Vínland map. Stanford University Press. pp. 210. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Edson, Evelyn (2007). The world map, 1300-1492: the persistence of tradition and transformation. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 179. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Scafi, Alessandro (2006). Mapping paradise: a history of heaven on earth. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Edson, Evelyn (2007). The world map, 1300-1492: the persistence of tradition and transformation. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 179. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  Jacob Pandian, Susan Parman (2004). The making of anthropology: the semiotics of self and other in the Western Tradition. p. 67. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
caption: An upside-down close up of the Iberian peninsula.
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