Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) is the fifth book in a series of novels on Spanish chivalry by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, which began with Amadís de Gaula. The first known edition of this work was published in Seville in July 1510, but there was undoubtedly one prior (perhaps published in Seville in 1496), since the sixth book of the series, Florisando, appeared in April 1510.[citation needed]
Las Sergas mentions a fictional island named California, inhabited only by women. When Spanish explorers learned of an island (actually a peninsula) off western Mexico rumored to be ruled by Amazon women, they named it California.
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- California as an Island
- Philadelphia Print Shop Ltd. Maps of California as an island
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