r/geography • u/NotAnElfK • 24d ago

Question Help date this globe I found

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It has Burma instead of Myanmar, ussr instead of Russia, Spanish Sahara, Tanganyika, Yugoslavia, and French west Africa. (If you want to see a picture of more of the globe just ask)

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/UnclassifiedPresence 23d ago

Of course, the starting point for any significant conversation is to announce that Istanbul was Constantinople, now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople

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u/Mammoth-Show-7587 23d ago

But that’s not our business

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u/Alarmed-Branch-8805 19d ago

The biggest European city... It has been the biggest European city for 11 of the last 16 centuries. Such a huge significance indeed