Definition of Portolan. Meaning of Portolan. Synonyms of Portolan

- Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...
- partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The map is a portolan chart with comp**** roses and a windrose network for navigation, rather...
- of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean in a portolan chart by Angelino Dulcert circa 1325, the Rex Tholomeus portolan chart circa 1360 and the Catalan Atlas...
- Claude Portolan (born 16 December 1960) is a French former international rugby union player. A product of hometown club SA Auterive, Portolan was a prop...
- in different directions forming a web-like mesh. They were featured on portolan charts and other early nautical charts used in the medieval age and age...
- the prin****l winds on the comp**** rose found in mariners' comp****es and portolan charts of the 14th and 15th centuries. The traditional names of the eight...
- notable 14th-century portolan charts, the "Dalorto" chart of 1325 and the "Dulcert" chart of 1339. The latter is the first portolan known to have been produced...
- expected of all Medieval mariners.[citation needed] In the earliest medieval portolan charts of the 14th century, comp**** roses were depicted as mere collections...
- was a Genoese cartographer and geographer. A pioneer of the field of the portolan chart, he influenced Italian and Catalan mapmaking throughout the fourteenth...
- of this 1527 map was destro**** during World War II. There are numerous portolan charts, atlases and at least two other world maps made by Vesconte Maggiolo:...