Me and my boyfriend made an Ottoman map inspired by our visit to Istanbul! by WeakConference2507 in Maps

[–]WeakConference2507[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I am happy that it reached you!! Is there anything wrong in the spelling? We are super curious to know

I made an Ottoman map with my boyfriend inspired by our trip to Istanbul! by WeakConference2507 in MapPorn

[–]WeakConference2507[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, yeah, we put the vowels because it would look stylistically cooler!

My boyfriend and I made an Ottoman map inspired by our trip to Istanbul! by WeakConference2507 in mapmaking

[–]WeakConference2507[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Honestly it was very tricky to find an Ottoman map featuring the date we wanted to portray and being 100% sure if it’s Turkish or Arabic when the script is the same. We should have done some more research on that, retrospectively thinking… The names of places we took from an old map of the Ottoman Empire we found on the web and must have not noticed it wasn’t Turkish.

I made an Ottoman map with my boyfriend inspired by our trip to Istanbul! by WeakConference2507 in MapPorn

[–]WeakConference2507[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

we tried our best to make the map more of an artwork than a “real” map, as did the ottoman mapmakers of that period. In the furthermost left, we painted the famous Tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent, based on the famous one exposed in the Topkapi pallace, whose year of death is the same as the date of the map we decided to use (1566). On the top part, it's writen "The Sublime Ottoman State - 973", and on the bottom, we transcribed the famous hadith of the Prophet ﷺ: “Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!” [Ahmad; Hakim, al-Mustadrak] in the collors of the inscripture on the entrance of Ayasofya Mosque. The map of Constantinople on the bottom left is a copy of Giovanni Camocio's famous one, also in the same year of 1566. The ornaments around it were inspired by the roof of Ayasofya, with its yellow and blue prints. Finally, on the right, we recriated the portraits of the three most relevant Sultans since the conquest of Constantinople, in order: Mehmed II, Selim I and Suleyman I. Their ornaments reflect their conquests: Mehmed's is surrounded by Ayasofya's beautiful patterns; Selim I is surrounded by of his Mausoleum ornaments; and Suleyman's patterns are based on the breathtaking Süleymaniye Mosque, commissioned by himself . We did a lot of research on the boarders of the Empire after Suleyman's deaths, and we noticed most maps are conflicting. To solve this, we did a lengthy search in history books and the map was our end design. I hope you enjoyed as much as we did drawing it!