A world map drawn by language — in 1073.

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A world map drawn by language — in 1073.

Mahmud al-Kashghari drew an unusual circular world map organized on a linguistic basis. It appears in his Compendium of Turkish Dialects (1073), showing much of Central Asia along with China and North Africa.

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