Mid-Afternoon Map: The Rise and Fall of the Mediterranean Powers

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** Over the past few weeks we’ve been on a meandering journey along the outskirts of Europe, looking at the border between the Near and Middle Easts as well as the evolving Orientalness of Spain. I wasn’t planning to have a point at the beginning of this, but now I’m delighted to discover there