Atlas Mountains
- Ancient name
- Atlas Montes
- Modern name
- Atlas Mountains
- Coordinates
- 31.06, -7.91
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364236
The Atlas Mountains start in Morocco and stretch as far as Tunisia, separating coastal North Africa (Barbaria) from the Sahara Desert; Dati and the illustrators who created the Sfera maps clearly believed the range stretched across all of northern Africa as far as Egypt (see Charena).
The toponym Atlas Mountains appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P018
Variant spellings of Atlas Mountains in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| .M. Atalante | Med1 |
| [...]onte alta la[...] | Par1 |
| Atalante | Cors2, Med1 |
| atalante | Pal6 |
| athalante | Luc2 |
| attalante | Fn8 |
| M.ata[...] | Ricc6 |
| MON[TE] ATA[AN]TE | Pnc5 |
| Mon[te] atala[nte] | Ricc6 |
| MONTE ATALANTE | Par4 |
| monte atalante | Bos |
| Monte Atalante | He1 |
| Monte atalante | Luc2, Tre |
| Monte athalante | Luc2 |
| Monte attalante | Fn8 |
| monte attalante | Fn8 |
| Monte Attalante | Urb2 |
| Monte attalante detto charena | Fn8 |
| Monte attalante inbarberia chiamato charena | Fn8 |
| Monte Malanie [loqual?] Inbarberia chiamato charena | Ricc6 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Atlas Mountains.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/atlas-mountains/.