Taprobana
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Taprobana was the historical name of an island in the Indian Ocean.
It may have been
- Sri Lanka as in Ptolemy's map and climes
- Sumatra as in the birthplace of Henry the Black
- a phantom island
It is mentioned in the first strophe of the Portuguese epic poem Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões. [1]
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