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by azernik 840 days ago
Interestingly varying levels of accuracy as you look at the Levant. The mapmakers have a very good idea of what cities lie on the coast and in which order, but the actual shape of the coast is completely unknown to them and the relation of inland sites to the known coastal ones is... rough.

Interestingly: "Those who are expert, let them complete this Idumea and Palestina and Galilea with what I do not put - that is, the river Jordan, the Tiberian Sea, the Dead Sea and other places which it has not been possible to include"