- Lochac,
Locach or
Locat is a
country far
south of
China mentioned by
Marco Polo. The name is
widely believed to be a
variant of Lo-huk 罗斛: the Cantonese...
- Major,
Locach (modern Lop Buri), and
Sumatra (Java Minor). In Cantonese, Lavo (an
early name of Lop Buri) was
pronounced "Lo-huk" 羅斛 and
Locach was Marco...
-
elephants in
Locach;
Locach was
notable in the
Chinese annals for
sending elephants as tribute. Beach, as a
mistranscription of
Locach,
originated with...
-
promontory of the
TERRE OSTRALE (Australe) is
called terre de
Lucac (the Land of
Locach), and is
separated from La Iave
grande and Iave by the R. grande. That is...
- cartographers, like Mercator’s
southern continent with its
promontory of
Beach (
Locach), were the
product not of
actual discovery by
French or
Portuguese navigators...
- (Lavo) is
described in Book III of
Marco Polo's Travels,
where it is
called Locach. This came from the
Chinese (Cantonese)
pronunciation of Lavo, "Lo-huk"...
- eight-leaved wall map of the world, on
which he
identified the
Regio Patalis with
Locach as a
northward extension of the
Terra Australis,
reaching as far as New...
- eight-leaved wall map of the world, on
which he
identified the
Regio Patalis with
Locach as a
northward extension of the
Terra Australis,
reaching as far as New...
- journal,
Houtman identified these coasts with
Marco Polo's land of Beach, or
Locach, as
shown on maps of the time such as that of
Petrus Plancius and Jan Huyghen...
- of Krücken's web site(). King,
Robert J (2017), "Marco Polo's Java and
Locach on Mercator's
world maps of 1538 and 1569, and
globe of 1541", The Globe...
