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Liyūn al-Ifrīqī
Johannes Leo Africanus was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa in 1550, centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern e…
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culture · Maghrebi author (c. 1494-c. 1554) · explorer · geographer · diplomat · writer · traveler · author · historian · also Liyūn al-Ifrīqī, Leo Africanus, Hasan bin Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Joannes Leo Africanus, al-Ifrīqī
Born 1483 · Died 1600 · Q332790
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Born 1483.
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