Antillia

Also known as Isle of Seven Cities

Antillia or Antilia is a phantom island that was reputed, during the 15th-century age of exploration, to lie in the Atlantic Ocean, far to the west of Portugal and Spain. The island also went by the name of Isle of Seven Cities (; ).

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Fictional location.name: Antillia
Fictional location.image: Albino de Canepa 1489 Antillia Roillo.jpg
Fictional location.imagesize: 250px
Fictional location.caption: Map of Albino de Canepa, dated 1489. Phantom island of Antillia, with its Seven Cities, on top; the smaller companion island of Roillo is below it
Fictional location.series: Portolan chart
Fictional location.type: Phantom island

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Image: Atlantic Ocean, Toscanelli, 1474.jpg

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Legend
Etymology
Cartographic representation
Medieval beliefs and the Age of Discovery
Later influence
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It originates from an old Iberian legend, set during the Muslim conquest of Hispania . Seeking to flee from the Muslim conquerors, seven Christian Visigothic bishops embarked with their flocks on ships and set sail westwards into the Atlantic Ocean, eventually landing on an island (Antillia) where they founded seven settlements.