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Cefalonia (unknown)

Cefalonia only appears in a single Sfera manuscript (Fn3), near what should be the site of Caffa in the Crimea; it may in fact be a mis-expansion of that toponym (i.e. a scribe who saw the toponym caffa in an exemplar and mis-interpreted it as an abbreviation of cefalonia).
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.

Variant spellings of Cefalonia (unknown) in Sfera manuscripts

Variant Manuscripts
cifalonia Fn3
Suggested citation
Beneš, Carrie. “Cefalonia (unknown).” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/unknown-near-caffa/.