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Thank you for taking this project on. Of course it's immensely complicated, and entails making an almost endless number of decisions about routes, place names (what language, at which moment?) and relative importance of places. In spite of these complexities, the map is fascinating and stimulating, and I hope there will be much more work on this
The location of "Lahore" in the then India and now Pakistan is wrongly depicted for the 11/12th century. The location shown is that of the modern day Lahore which was only populated in the 11th century after the rulers of the original Lahore were defeated and they set up a new city on the left bank of river Ravi which is the modern day Lahore. Original Lahore was situated on the Right Bank of River Indus upstream of Takshilla (Taxilla now) which was only ruins by then. It is an irony of history that the original Lahore is now called "Nia" meaning new "Lahore"!
Nice that you've mentioned Gnezdovo! This huge archaeological site has been completely neglected by the Russians and is mostly destroyed now... Talking about name, Minsk is a colonial Polish and Soviet Russian name for Mensk, officially established by the Soviet authorities in 1939. After the collapse of USSR there were talks about changing it back to Mensk, but the question lost its importance during Lukashenko's reign.
Great work, really :-) Keeping readability is good, though, for example, you could put old names bracketed next to modern or vice versa - to consent the lovers of historical authenticity. And another one - Balkan peninsula - city of ... Tirnovo(?) this is more likely how it will be transcribed in turkish ... Tarnovo is original and modern name.
I'm not sure if I like it or not. Ok i likeit and I find it really educating BUT... those names are confusing. For example one city in Slovakia Košice - you wrote Kaschau but this term is from 15. century. And that time Then our capital city Bratislava is named like that since 1918 (1843 as Braťislava). I would recomend you to use one model/method - choose modern or historical naming. Not both. Maybe historical names wouldn't be the best option, since cities used to have different names at the same times. Anyway, nice job! :)
Zsolt: To add... The purpose with the map was originally that it would be a handy tool for people to understand trade and make it easier for them to dig deeper into the interesting locations. Sometimes naming the cities in their modern names makes them more searchable on the web. So that was the original reason for why i use modern names sometimes.
Not sure if you can reply through this... So i will just have to answer your questions through this comment: Gansysh: Thank you, i will add this in a future update :) Amarlake: You can e-mail me. My information is in the map within the legend image. Lynn: And thank you Lynn, it makes me very happy! Many small errors have been found and an updated version is coming in the future. But the course of these maps are that they will never be truly finished :) Thrakianus: Chang'an was the starting point of the silk road for a long time, but during this timeframe is had been ravaged several times and lost all its previous importance. Zsolt: I've tried to keep to historical names where i see fit. hence, there's an unavoidable bias in this process. Sometimes i choice to name them with current names, and not historic ones, to make the map more readable. This is the case for many chinese cities who tends to change name quite a lot during history.
