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Tabula Almamuniana (Caliph Al-Mamoun) (833) Baghdad
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Taken from : cosmovisions.com/ChronoAfriqueExplo01
It places the source of the Nile at the place it deserves : lake Kereoue, here called lake Kourakavas (coincidence?).
Note: Lake Kereoue is better known as lake Victoria Nyanza.
With this map the tradition started to make the Nile (or a branch of it) start or pass through a lake called Koura
of the Caliph Al-Ma'mun
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Taken from : catalogue Library of Congress (map found on several websites)
As contained in the Kitab masalik al-absar by Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari (d. 1349 A.D.), MS 2797/1 Ahmet III Collection, Topkappi Sarayi Library, Istanbul. Includes ancillary reconstruction of the facsimile map by Dr. Aladdin Jokhosha
