Ahmad ibn Majid
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Ahmad ibn Majid
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Aḥmad ibn Mājid, also known as the "Arab Admiral" and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. He was raised in a family famous for seafaring; at the age of seventeen he was able to navigate ships. The exact date is not known, but Ibn Mājid probably died around 1500. Although long identified in the West as the navigator who helped Vasco da Gama find his way from Africa to India, contemporary
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Arab navigator and cartographer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Majid
date created:
2005-08-15T12:37:26Z
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2024-09-08T08:46:42Z
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