Antillia
Sign in to saveAntillia 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 (; ).
Key facts
- 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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- Legend
- Etymology
- Cartographic representation
- Medieval beliefs and the Age of Discovery
- Later influence
- See also
- References
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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 (; ).
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.