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Cape Delgado (Portuguese: Cabo Delgado) is a coastal promontory south of Mozambique's border with Tanzania. It is the arc-shaped delta of the Rovuma River and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the Indian Ocean. It is sometimes identified with Prasum, the southernmost point of Africa known to the Roman geographers Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy. In Ptolemy's Geography, it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great unknown shore to meet southeast Asia and enclose the Indian Ocean. Medieval Islamic cartographers dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century al-Khwārizmī but the conception returned to Europe following Jacobus Angelus's c. 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dis

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  • Cap Delgado (cabo Delgado en portuguès) és un accident geografic de la costa nord de Moçambic, que marca el punt més al nord del país; es troba a uns 30 km al sud del riu Rovuma que delimita la frontera amb Tanzània. El cap fou creat per sediments del riu Rovuma depositats a la seva desembocadura a l'oceà Índic. El seu nom serveix per denominar a una província (i abans districte) de Moçambic: Cabo Delgado. (ca)
  • Kap Delgado (portugiesisch Cabo Delgado) ist ein Kap am Indischen Ozean, das im Norden der nach ihm benannten Provinz Cabo Delgado in Mosambik liegt. (de)
  • Cape Delgado (Portuguese: Cabo Delgado) is a coastal promontory south of Mozambique's border with Tanzania. It is the arc-shaped delta of the Rovuma River and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the Indian Ocean. It is sometimes identified with Prasum, the southernmost point of Africa known to the Roman geographers Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy. In Ptolemy's Geography, it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great unknown shore to meet southeast Asia and enclose the Indian Ocean. Medieval Islamic cartographers dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century al-Khwārizmī but the conception returned to Europe following Jacobus Angelus's c. 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dispensed with until after Bartholomew Dias's successful circumnavigation of Africa in 1488. Cape Delgado gives its name to Cabo Delgado Province of Mozambique. (en)
  • Le cap Delgado, en portugais Cabo Delgado, est un cap d’Afrique de l'Est donnant sur l’océan Indien à la frontière entre le Mozambique et la Tanzanie. Formé par le delta d’un fleuve appelé Ruvuma, il est proche du point le plus septentrional du Mozambique, pays à une province duquel il a donné son nom, la province de Cabo Delgado. Certains historiens l’identifient avec le cap Prasum, finisterre sud de l’Afrique selon les géographes grecs Marinos de Tyr et Ptolémée. Dans la « Géographie » de Ptolémée, il désignait un point où la côte africaine s'incurve vers l'est, délimitant une terra incognita, pour se raccorder à l’Asie du sud-est et fermer l’Océan Indien. Les cartographes arabes, à l’instar d’al-Khwārizmī, avaient rectifié cette conception dès le IXe siècle, mais avec la traduction latine de Jacopo d'Angelo du « Ptolémée » de Maxime Planude (1406), elle connut un vif regain d'intérêt en Europe, avant d'être discréditée par la publication du récit de voyage de Bartolomeu Dias, en 1488. (fr)
  • Capo Delgado (in portoghese Cabo Delgado, letteralmente "capo sottile") è un promontorio situato all'estremità settentrionale del Mozambico, al confine con la Tanzania. È costituito dal delta del fiume Ruvuma, e si è formato attraverso l'accumulo dei sedimenti portati dal fiume. Il capo dà il nome alla Provincia di Capo Delgado. (it)
  • Cabo Delgado é um promontório situado em Moçambique, na costa do Oceano Índico, entre a vila de Palma e o rio Rovuma que marca a fronteira entre Moçambique e a Tanzânia. Neste cabo encontra-se situado o Farol de Cabo Delgado, inaugurado em 1931. A província moçambicana de Cabo Delgado deve o seu nome a este elemento geográfico. (pt)
  • 德尔加杜角(葡萄牙語:Cabo Delgado)也作德耳加多角,是莫桑比克与坦桑尼亚交界处的一个海岬,系莫桑比克的最北端。该地系由鲁伍马河河口沉积物沉积形成。莫桑比克北部省份德尔加杜角省即以该地而得名。 (zh)
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  • Cap Delgado (cabo Delgado en portuguès) és un accident geografic de la costa nord de Moçambic, que marca el punt més al nord del país; es troba a uns 30 km al sud del riu Rovuma que delimita la frontera amb Tanzània. El cap fou creat per sediments del riu Rovuma depositats a la seva desembocadura a l'oceà Índic. El seu nom serveix per denominar a una província (i abans districte) de Moçambic: Cabo Delgado. (ca)
  • Kap Delgado (portugiesisch Cabo Delgado) ist ein Kap am Indischen Ozean, das im Norden der nach ihm benannten Provinz Cabo Delgado in Mosambik liegt. (de)
  • Capo Delgado (in portoghese Cabo Delgado, letteralmente "capo sottile") è un promontorio situato all'estremità settentrionale del Mozambico, al confine con la Tanzania. È costituito dal delta del fiume Ruvuma, e si è formato attraverso l'accumulo dei sedimenti portati dal fiume. Il capo dà il nome alla Provincia di Capo Delgado. (it)
  • Cabo Delgado é um promontório situado em Moçambique, na costa do Oceano Índico, entre a vila de Palma e o rio Rovuma que marca a fronteira entre Moçambique e a Tanzânia. Neste cabo encontra-se situado o Farol de Cabo Delgado, inaugurado em 1931. A província moçambicana de Cabo Delgado deve o seu nome a este elemento geográfico. (pt)
  • 德尔加杜角(葡萄牙語:Cabo Delgado)也作德耳加多角,是莫桑比克与坦桑尼亚交界处的一个海岬,系莫桑比克的最北端。该地系由鲁伍马河河口沉积物沉积形成。莫桑比克北部省份德尔加杜角省即以该地而得名。 (zh)
  • Cape Delgado (Portuguese: Cabo Delgado) is a coastal promontory south of Mozambique's border with Tanzania. It is the arc-shaped delta of the Rovuma River and was created from sediment deposited by the Rovuma as it empties into the Indian Ocean. It is sometimes identified with Prasum, the southernmost point of Africa known to the Roman geographers Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy. In Ptolemy's Geography, it marked the point where Africa turned eastward along a great unknown shore to meet southeast Asia and enclose the Indian Ocean. Medieval Islamic cartographers dispensed with the idea at least as early as the 9th-century al-Khwārizmī but the conception returned to Europe following Jacobus Angelus's c. 1406 Latin translation of Maximus Planudes's restored Ptolemaic text and was not (openly) dis (en)
  • Le cap Delgado, en portugais Cabo Delgado, est un cap d’Afrique de l'Est donnant sur l’océan Indien à la frontière entre le Mozambique et la Tanzanie. Formé par le delta d’un fleuve appelé Ruvuma, il est proche du point le plus septentrional du Mozambique, pays à une province duquel il a donné son nom, la province de Cabo Delgado. (fr)
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  • Cap Delgado (ca)
  • Kap Delgado (de)
  • Cape Delgado (en)
  • Cap Delgado (fr)
  • Capo Delgado (it)
  • Cabo Delgado (pt)
  • 德尔加杜角 (zh)
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