The Atlas of the Earth

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Atlas was so grateful to Heracles for his kindly deed that he not only gladly gave him such assistance as his Labour called for, but he also instructed him quite freely in the knowledge of astrology. For Atlas had worked out the science of astrology to a degree surpassing others and had ingeniously discovered the spherical nature of the stars, and for that reason was generally believed to be bearing the entire firmament upon his shoulders. Similarly in the case of Heracles, when he had brought to the Greeks the doctrine of the sphere, he gained great fame, as if he had taken over the burden of the firmament which Atlas had borne, since men intimated in this enigmatic way what had actually taken place." Bibliotheca historica, Book IV 27.4-5 Basque Country ■ Burzenland ■ Catalan Countries ■ Frisia ■ Kurdistan ■ Manchuria ■ Sápmi ■ Svenskfinland ■ Székely Land ■ Transylvania Austria-Hungary ■ Byzantine Empire ■ Caliphate ■ Czechoslovakia ■ Frankish Empire ■ Kingdom of Hawaiʻi ■ Inca Empire ■ Iroquois Confederacy ■ Macedonian Empire ■ Ottoman Empire ■ Prussia ■ Roman Empire ■ Soviet Union ■ Republic of Texas ■ Vermont Republic ■ Republic of West Florida ■ Yugoslavia Aceh ■ Adjara ■ Adygea ■ Altai ■ Andalusia ■ Aosta Valley ■ Aragon ■ Asturias ■ Athos ■ Azores ■ Balearic Islands ■ Bashkortostan ■ Basque Autonomous Community ■ Bonaire ■ Bosnia and Herzegovina (Federation of) ■ Bougainville ■ Brussels ■ Buryatia ■ Canary Islands ■ Catalonia ■ Chechnya ■ Chuvashia ■ Corsica ■ Dagestan ■ Easter Island ■ England ■ Extremadura ■ Flanders ■ Friuli-Venezia Giulia ■ Gagauzia ■ Galicia ■ Galápagos Islands ■ Gilgit–Baltistan ■ Gorno-Badakhshan ■ Guangxi ■ Ingushetia ■ Islamabad Capital Territory ■ Inner Mongolia ■ Kabardino-Balkaria ■ Kalmykia ■ Karachay-Cherkessia ■ Karakalpakstan ■ Karelia ■ Khakassia ■ Komi ■ Kurdistan (Iraqi) ■ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ■ Madeira ■ Mari El ■ Muslim Mindanao ■ Mordovia ■ Nakhichevan ■ Navarre ■ Nevis ■ Ningxia ■ North Ossetia – Alania ■ Northern Ireland ■ Nunatsiavut ■ Quebec ■ Saba ■ Sakha ■ Sardinia ■ Scotland ■ Sicily ■ Sindh ■ Sint Eustatius ■ Srpska ■ Tibet ■ Tłı̨chǫ ■ Trentino-Alto Adige ■ Tuva ■ Udmurtia ■ Vojvodina ■ Wales ■ Wallonia ■ Xinjiang ■ Zanzibar Atlas was also a legendary king of Mauretania, the land of the Mauri in antiquity roughly corresponding with modern Morocco and Algeria . In the 16th century, Gerardus Mercator put together the first collection of maps to be called an " Atlas" and devoted his book to the "King of Mauretania". [24] [26]

Abkhazia ■ Artsakh ■ Kosovo ■ Northern Cyprus ■ Palestine ■ Somaliland ■ South Ossetia ■ Taiwan ■ Tatarstan ■ Transnistria ■ Western Sahara Hesiod; Works and Days, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

The Far East, the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the largest and most populous continent has many subregions. Asia counts 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all members of the United Nations, plus two states with a kind of limited, but substantial, international recognition, Taiwan (ROC), and Palestine (State of Palestine). 4.64 billion people live in Asia. The two most populous countries in the world are in Asia, China and India. Asia's largest country by area is Russia, Asian Russia occupies almost 30% of the entire continent. Lemprière, J. (1833). Anthon, C. (ed.). A Classical Dictionary. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill [etc.] LCCN 31001224. OCLC 81170896.

Sources describe Atlas as the father, by different goddesses, of numerous children, mostly daughters. Some of these are assigned conflicting or overlapping identities or parentage in different sources.a b Beekes, Robert; van Beek, Lucien (2010). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Vol.1. Brill. p.163. The most famous myth involving Atlas is his role in the Twelve Labours of Hercules. Hercules was commanded by King Eurystheus to steal the golden apples from the fabled gardens of the Hesperides. The western portion of the Eurasian continent is known as Europe. There are 44 sovereign countries, not included are countries that only have a small territory in Europe like Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. 43 European countries are members of the United Nations ( Vatican City is not. The Holy See, which represents the Vatican City State in international relations, has permanent observer status at the UN). 27 countries are members of the European Union. 747 million people live in Europe. Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections. Our goal is to keep the atlas free for use by anyone with an internet connection. To that end, please consider donating by