Eine Karte, die ich gerade fertiggestellt habe … Zypern im Jahr 1135

Who owned it then?

Hmmm

Very nicely done Stefane! Svaka cast!

This is a good effort with some decent details on it. However, there are a few things to unpack here:

1) The map says 1335, but the title says 1135. Depending on which is the intentional year, that potentially changes whether this map has certain important inaccuracies. For example, “Salines” for Larnaca is a post-Frankish acquisition (late 12th century) name in reference to the Larnaca salt lake nearby. Including both Larnaca and Salines in this case is odd.

2) Constantia (ancient Salamis) and Soloi didn’t exist as cities at that point, they were ruins. Perhaps this was the intention? If so, it’d be clearer to denote it with some kind of different marking or colour.

3) Varosha didn’t exist until after the Ottoman conquest (1573). The name comes from “varoș” meaning “suburb” which is where the surviving Christian inhabitants of Famagusta (and others who later settled there) would stay, since the Ottomans banned Christians from staying inside the walled city as punishment for resisting during the siege.

4) “Termassos” isn’t a place in Cyprus. Perhaps you meant “Tamasos”, but the location is quite far from where it’s located in your map. Plus by this point it was already an abandoned ancient settlement and retained the name mostly as a metropolitan of the church of Cyprus.

5) A few other settlements are also somewhat misplaced. For example, Episkopi isn’t that far south on the Akrotiri peninsula. Those are quite minor though.

6) Kantara castle is way off to the east in your map compared to its actual location. It should also be on the Pentadaktylos mountain range just like St. Hilarion and Buffavento (not shown here on the map).

7) The Apostolos Andreas monastery on the tip of Karpasia didn’t exist in 1135 nor 1335. There is speculation for some small chapel existing since Byzantine times due to church tradition about St. Andrew performing a miracle there, but it’s purely speculative. The earliest religious site found on that spot is a 15th century church.