Ethiopia's Sea - Ethiopia's Sea

Japanese: エチオピアの海 - えちおぴあのうみ
Ethiopia's Sea - Ethiopia's Sea

…Ptolemy (2nd century), the compendium of ancient geography, instead considered the Indian Ocean to be an inland sea surrounded by land. Islamic geographers called the Indian Ocean the Sea of ​​India, the Sea of ​​Zanj, and the Sea of ​​Ethiopia, and did not consider it an inland sea, but Ptolemy's influence was strong, and in their geographical works, the southern tip of Africa extended all the way east to the opposite coast of China. By al-Biruni (11th century), this eastern extension was reduced to the size of a peninsula, and a seaway connecting the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean was predicted in southern Africa. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Ethiopian Sea" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古代地理学の集大成者プトレマイオス(2世紀)になると,かえってインド洋は周囲を陸地で囲まれた内海とされる。イスラム地理学者たちは,インド洋を〈インドの海〉〈ザンジュの海〉〈エチオピアの海〉とよび,インド洋を内海とは見なさなかったが,プトレマイオスの影響は根強く,彼らの地理書では,アフリカの南端は中国の対岸までずっと東に延ばされている。ビールーニーal‐Bīrūnī(11世紀)になると,この東への延びは半島規模に縮小され,インド洋と大西洋を結ぶ水路の存在がアフリカ南部に予測されている。…

※「エチオピアの海」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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