A short history of Napoli through the affirmation of its toponym in historical cartography

In medieval cartography (Ebstorf’s T-O map and some nautical maps) the toponym Napoli does not appear. Instead, on these maps and charts we find the toponym Salerno well highlighted. This circumstance is probably linked to the fame of the city of Salerno as the university seat of the “Hippocratic oath”, with its famous medical school, while Napoli assumes increasing importance only from the end of the thirteenth century, when it becomes the capital of the kingdom with the Angevins. This contribution, therefore, tries to retrace the phases through which the toponym Napoli begins to make its presence on the maps of the past, gradually becoming the most important toponym of southern Italy, until it is indicative of the entire kingdom.