When did people living on the Apennine Peninsula figure out that they lived on a boot?

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Not just a bootish-peninsula, I am sure that was apparent quickly, I am asking when cartographers confirmed in fact that the peninsula was accurately drawn strikingly like a boot.

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Maps as early as 500 BC were detailed enough to resemble a boot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps

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