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What 16th century Ottomans thought Europe looked like on top of an actual map of Europe
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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They didn't know about the Netherlands
Had the Netherlands already started getting land back from water in the 16th century?
Yes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtermeer
How'd that get its name? It sounds almost like a corruption of French "acheter mer" ("to buy sea").
Achter means in a local sense 'at the back' or 'behind' and meer means either 'more' or means 'sea' (e.g. IJsselmeer).
So it referrs to either "more land behind" the city of Alkmaar or or a sea behind the city.
Lake, meer means lake. Achtermeer is best translated as back lake, or behind lake. Assuming achter in this case is used as this. It could also mean the lake of Acht. Since Acht could also be the name of a location. See Markermeer.
TY. Funny how German and Dutch switch meaning here:
Achter is like aft or after (as in behind); meer is like mere (as in a lake). Aftermere would be an English bastardisation of the name.
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I think what @[email protected] means is that on the Ottoman map you kinda get France, and then directly on the coastline right north of France you get Jutland. It's sorta like if you took Europe and did a ripple cut to remove the Netherlands out of it.
Yup! That's what it looks like to me! After Denmark you get Sweden and Norway, and they're easy to close to the UK!
Don't underestimate the Wadden Sea.