Category: Maps

Emirate of Fraxinetum

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The Emirate of Fraxinetum was a Moslem state of the ninth and tenth centuries, centred on the French Riviera, but extending up into Switzerland. Between the North Africans, Hungarians and Norse, Western Europe was really getting walloped in the 900s. Source.

Middle-earth or Chūgoku?

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The map from a Japanese edition of Lord of the Rings. Source.

All these places are in the middle:
中国 is China.
中つ国 is Middle-earth.
中国地方 is Chūgoku Region.
中東 is the Middle East.
ミドルセックス is Middlesex.
ミドルトン is Middleton.