A 1311 mappa mundi by Pietro Vesconte with the inscription “Letoini pagani” is not the first mention

This map was reproduced in print for the first time in 1611 by Johann Bongars from www.raremaps.com. The detail image – boxed in red on the image of the full map – shows the Baltic Sea with North on the left, and the label “Letoini pagani,” which certain Lithuanian historians have translated as “Lithuanian pagans”. This phrase refers to Lettish/Latvian pagans, not only because the labels on the map just below [or West] say “estonia” and “livonia.” In addition, at the time of this map’s publication, the nearly hundred-year-old Livonian Crusade of 1198-1290 had just ended, deserving the labeling of Latvian pagans, while the Lithuanian Crusade of 1283–1422 was just beginning.