The Leardo Map of the World, 1452 or 1453 / In the Collections of the American Geographical Society

by John Kirtland Wright

509 aquis: =?

510 mogropes: Mangobror, CA;=?Magdeburg.

511 argenimon|de: Argent Munde, CA; Tangermünde (Buchon and Tastu, 49).

512 stendar: =Stendal.

513 albia: River name made into a place name;=Elbe.

(C) Between Elbe and Baltic

514 gara gorda(?): Garagona, CA;=Glogau (Hamy, 403).

515 schlauonia: =Sclavania, the name applied to the Slavic frontier region of Germany in the Middle Ages (Spruner-Mencke, Histor. Atlas, Mittelalter, No. 31).

516 sasonia: =Saxony.

517 ludus|maior: Ludis Magna, CA; Lundis Magna on Ptolemaic maps of the type called Scandico-Byzantine by Nordenskiöld (Periplus, 88); Bondismaguc, Con. (7; see Jiménez de la Espada 184-185);=?Lüdershagen, near Stralsund (Lelewel, ii, 65; Hamy, 400).