The map was made for Roger, king of Sicily. The red lines are trade routes. This is a reproduction kept in UAE's Sharjah Museum.
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This is impressively accurate for such an old map. But what happened to Italy? It's all over the place lol. I would've thought such an important trading region would be closer to reality. Spain and Portugal seem fairly correct too.
Italy has always looked like a boot, it's just that back in the day boots looked very different