Ottoman Map of Africa, 1803, Cedid Atlas

[SultanuuFicaan]

Our territories is called 'CADAL'/

Southern africa is called 'Hottentot' (Khoisan).

 

[SultanuuFicaan]

Similarly this Ottoman map during the 1600 also refers Somali territories as 'Cadal'

 

[SultanuuFicaan]

The rest of the Cedid Atlast

An interesting tidbit of a reddit user who discovered this in a Norwegian Library.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...worlds-rarest-atlases/?utm_term=.859a642c756b

 

[Striker]

Adal empire?

 

[government]

Interesting stuff

 

[$$$$]

Is there a legend to go with the colours ?

 

[merka]

Here's a map of Africa in the mid 1800s. It includes the other Somali sultanates

 

[oday1kenobi]

Interesting.

Guys don't dwell on the adal name for Northern Somalia as it was probably a layover for when the ottomans were allied with the adal sultanate in the 16th century. The adal sultanate was extinct several centuries prior to this map.

It's similar to how the Arabs and Persians called the Byzantine empire the Roman empire/Rum (even though technically it was still a continuation of the extinct Roman empire in some sense).

 

[DuctTape]

Interesting how northern Sudan is labelled "Habash" but the actual Abyssinian territories are labelled "Danakil", probably after the Afar people. Strange.

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

the first map reaffirms our historical claim on socotra island.

 

[Arman]

Here's a map of Africa in the mid 1800s. It includes the other Somali sultanates

It's upside down.

 

[Jujuman]

Our territories is called 'CADAL'/

Southern africa is called 'Hottentot' (Khoisan).

That's not your territories that was territories being governed by Turks.

 

[oday1kenobi]

The rest of the Cedid Atlast

An interesting tidbit of a reddit user who discovered this in a Norwegian Library.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...worlds-rarest-atlases/?utm_term=.859a642c756b

Interesting that Europe/russia is divided by the Volga River with asia and that the ottoman possessions in the Balkans including Constantinople are in Europe.

 

[Lone Wanderer]

I'm always surprise to see how accurate the propotion was of the world 200 years ago