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What 16th century Ottomans thought Europe looked like on top of an actual map of Europe (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Holy shit my brain had a tough time with realizing that the normal map thing where the light part is land and the dark part is water isn't what's happening here 😅

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[–] Audacious 2 points 8 months ago

Me too, was having a hard time recognizing anything until I started looking at the "water."

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