1581 Karte der alten Welt und einiger Amerikas

Where is İstanbul ? I cant see it.

So I’ve seen older more accurate maps, so why does this one look like this

At that time (1581) , Ottoman Constantinople was probably the center of the world, closely followed by Ming Beijing. Spain oversaw a massive world empire, but France was the single strongest European state, due to its very advanced and effective centralized bureaucracy.

Jerusalem, despite its huge religious significance for Christians and Jews (less so for Muslims at that time) was a backwater part of the Ottoman Empire, and would remain so until the late 19th century. The only major change in Jerusalem during the long Ottoman centuries was the fact that the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate (with Ottoman support) became the largest and most influential land-owner, a position it retains today in Israel.

close enough

This is the Clover Leaf World Map made by Heinrich Bünting. The title at the top reads “The Whole World in a Cloverleaf” (*Die gantze Welt in einem Kleberblat*) and the subtitle explains its trefoil shape: “which is the coat of arms of the city of Hanover, my beloved fatherland”. Bünting also made maps of Europe in the shape of an emperor and Asia in the shape of Pegasus.

In another timeline, when the 1948 UN Declaration on Palestine was implemented, we would have had two states, Israel for the Israelis, and Palestine for the Palestinians, and Jerusalem would have been a separate international city, with the Headquarters of the United Nations. Oh Jerusalem, you could have been the centre of a united world.

Ungern? It sounds like ‘unpleasant’

I mean the stuff is roughly in the right place i guess. The shapes are questionable compared to IRL..

Based