Is it possible to make a map on a geographical background that would contain the albanian districts of Kolonje and Permet together with the neighboring greek municipalities of Konitsa and Nestorion.
We don't create maps just for the sake of it. Unless you can show that the map in question is needed in a specific article, then the chances are that you request will be ignored. M.Bitton (talk) 19:04, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
I was checking out the Republic of Texas article and noticed that it doesn't have an orthographic map/globe like so many other countries (both former and present). Could someone make one and put it on that article instead of the present map, which in my opinion, looks something like out of a history textbook? I'm no good at map-making, so I leave it to y'all. Make sure to include the disputed territory, though! Thanks!
Very few, if any former countries have an orthographic map, and the reason is simple: to create such a thing involves representing the world as it was back then (i.e, a lot of effort for little return). M.Bitton (talk) 19:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
At least something like Austria-Hungary or the German Empire have, then? Centered on the continent? It looks at least a little more standardized.
Failing that, someone could pull up an older, real map (either from the period or from another time), something like on Ming China's article. 73.76.124.99 (talk) 17:38, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
The current map looks no different than what's in those articles. M.Bitton (talk) 19:57, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
Request: Include Bangladesh in places where gambling is illegal
The colours seem arbitrary. Might it be better to put them in spectral order or similar? I know this is in the original file. cmɢʟeeτaʟκ(please add {{ping|cmglee}} to your reply) 23:20, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
@Cmglee I don't have any particular issues with using any color over other. But, as long as the old map is updated I am fine with it. Greatder (talk) 04:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
Hello, I need to redraw a diagram of the ancient Egyptian expeditions to Sinai for copper and turquoise from page 84 and connect with dotted lines along the route:
1. One route apparently began in the north-east Delta, possibly from Pi-Ramesses or Tjaru (whence one expedition leader originated), and headed southward to the Gulf of Suez. A variant of this route may have traversed the Wadi Tumilat (East Delta) and turned south along the Isthmus of Suez, which contained a Second Intermediate Period settlement at Tell el-Maskhuta,52 a New Kingdom settlement and Ramesside fort at Tell er-Retabeh,53 a Ramesside fortified shrine at Gebel Abu Hassa (containing inscribed jars, texts, and stelae of Sety I and Ramesses II),54 a stela of Ramesses II erected at Gebel Mourr, and a Ramesside fort at Kom el-Qolzoum (Port Suez).55 The small shrine at Gebel Abu Hassa has yielded a small stela fragment mentioning the goddess Hathor, mistress of the turquoise, attesting to this way-station's role in the passage of expeditions to South Sinai.
2. Abdel-Raziq quite plausibly suggests that another route to South Sinai departe the Memphite region and used eastern desert wells (e.g. Bir Qana) to sustain exp along the route to el-Ein el-Sukhna. This destination lay 10 km south of an anch at Bir Odeib56 beside the Red Sea at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez. El-Ba and Abdel-Raziq recorded eight Middle Kingdom rock-cut inscriptions at el- Sukhna,57 some of which attest to copper and turquoise mining expeditions reach region en route to South Sinai. The preceding three routes appear to originate f contemporary royal residence (Itj-tawy in the Twelfth Dynasty; Pi-Ramesse Ramesside Period) and reached the northern end of the Gulf of Suez.
3. A fourth overland and maritime route to South Sinai very likely began from th residence at Thebes or Memphis, and crossed the Eastern Desert from the envir Beni Suef in Middle Egypt. This route traversed Wadi Araba, passing a shrin Ramesses II at Wadi Sannur and a New Kingdom copper mine and camp near Bir Bikheit and Bir Thimeil.59 The Red Sea terminus of this route probably lay at Mersa Thelemet60 opposite el-Markha Plain, which accessed the turquoise (and copper) mining region.
4. An examination of survey maps and the region along the West Sinai foothills, from Port Suez to el-Markha Plain, reveals a north-south line of fourteen oases, springs, wells, and basins (Table 1; fig. 1).67 Most of these water sources could easily have provided the daily water requirements for overland expeditions in the winter and to a lesser extent in the summer. The first well, Ayun Musa,68 which lies to the south-east of a Ramesside fort at Kom el-Qolzoum (Port Suez), contains archaeological remains, including an ushabti fragment and a late Roman to Coptic Period settlement.69 The second well, Bir Abu Qitifa, is very salty, and could not have supplied drinking water.70 The eighth water source, Wadi Gharandal, contains a small stream and many trees, furnishing an ideal watering place and camp site, and has yielded archaeological remains from the Roman Peri
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