Arabian Mountains
- Modern name
- Mountains vaguely placed btw Monte Libano and Monte Sinai: probbaly Transjordan, Transjordan Range
- Modern country
- Jordan
- Coordinates
- 31.77, 35.73
The toponym Arabian Mountains appears on a small group of Sfera maps labelling a north-south range between Mount Lebanon and Mount Sinai; as such it corresponds to the present-day Transjordan Range. It is not in the same place as the Montana Arabie or Montana Arabie Felicis that appear on later 15th-century Ptolemaic maps, which run east-west the north of the Arabian peninsula between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location M042
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Arabian Mountains.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, May 3, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/arabian-mountains/.