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Atlas Mountains

Ancient name
Atlas Montes
Modern name
Atlas Mountains
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). 
Coordinates
31.06, -7.91

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
MON[TE] ATA[AN]TE Pnc5
Monte atalante Luc2, Tre
Monte athalante Luc2
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Atlas Mountains.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, May 3, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/atlas-mountains/.