Egypt was invented by Albanian Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1805 to sell more pyramids

www.maptap.gg June 6 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 98🎯 86🎓 Final score: 950 Guys, they’re introducing regions. How do you calculate the centre of a whole region??? Also: it’s Joan, not Juan

Not sure I can be of any help bc I’m not Occitan nor know that much Provençal, but I’ll parse ‘testilis’ as ‘tèsti’, “I test(?)/taste(?)”, + ‘lis’, “them”, in reference to the ingredients in the mortar, maybe?

The hillfort of Nyangwe, Zimbabwe #historyxt

…the poverty and bias of this narratives from the 19th c., where Venice is seen as important, but not Aleppo or Tlemcen, is killing it by driving a globalized world towards this small spots hypercharged with meaning – meaning that was randomly selected.

Same applies to places that were pretty shitty till industrialisation kicked off – like Barcelona –, that thought they had to carve their own spots in those narratives, and that now that they’ve succeeded, are collapsing under the weight of the small fraction of us that go, as we are +8 billion.

An early book entirely composed of diagrams.

taking advantage of the fact that my timeline is Granada-posting, here’s a few lesser known Andalusi survivals from in and around the city! a thread (with more in the alt text) 1/

Spoiler alert: it didn’t end well

As a result of this, the descendants of that early Granada now live mainly in the Pyrenees and Zaragoza; although the Muslim population – the one that remained intact – still had several more centuries of glory, and they built most of what you can see now…

In summary, I think Amnaroio’s actual name was either أحمد or عبدالله, with ‘(el) Royo’, “the Blond (one)”, as a surname. The 1495 census: my very own I Ching 易经.

Marjane Satrapi had a very important & valuable voice, one that helped Europeans understand something of their shared humanity with the people of Iran. In a world like ours, this is no mean feat.

A ‘caŕquinyon’ has been bestowed upon me. Every time I get one, I think I’m eating lembas from Lothlórien.

pro-bookbinding tip: following the careful application of beeswax it is vital to keep any newly waxed thread both near at hand and tangle-free

This ‘Gotorino’ guy from 1211 got his Arabic name and Romance surname blended.

Karim Abu Shakra began painting the Sabra (cactus) at the age of eight after the death of his uncle.. as a sacred journey to maintain an intimate connection to him, it has evolved into a vast language. A symbol of patience, steadfastness and survival in the harshest conditions.

www.maptap.gg June 4 93🎉 100🎯 100🎯 95🏅 92🎓 Final score: 954 Not improving but that’s fine [*me fetching a flamethrower*]

Mateixes vibres

Meanwhile in the Celtiberia… “Let’s make an omelette with a PLANT THAT CAN KILL YOU IF YOU PICK THE WRONG LEAVES”

The speakers of this language isolate in Colombia are in the news unfortunately. Good dissertation if you can read Spanish: “El habla nasa (páez) de Munchique : nuevos acercamientos a su sociolingüística, fonología y sintaxis” by Esteban Díaz Montenegro (2019) theses.hal.science/tel-02469166...

Competing Narratives of Discovery: “European explorers of Africa were essentially tourists using local infrastructure and pre-existing systems of knowledge.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-an...

Right now, from our porch: a couple of ‘cigónyas’ (“white storks”) fishing and hunting in the marsh and the surrounding meadow.

📣 New #OpenAccess article 🧑‍🦳 @jenmcfarland.bsky.social, 'Old age, urban space and mobility in seventeenth-century Italy' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

hiragana matching pronunciation is a relatively recent development! pre-1946, standard kana usage was a deep orthography reflecting Early Middle Japanese phonology, and prior to 1900 there were several kana for each mora

cw addictions I’ve seen another instance of æ=a on Bluesky so I just want to say that [æ] and [a] are very much not the same vowel. Police officers around this area love both ‘rabas’ [ɹa.as] (“fried squid cuts”) and ‘rayas’ [ɹæ.as] (“lines”) so bar owners would be always getting their orders wrong.

www.maptap.gg June 3 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 96🔥 Final score: 986 This time I can’t blame the USofA. It’s all my fault.

we all adhere to a personal code and part of mine is that i will never not RT dialect maps of italy

When I say “curliest” I mean that I have straight hair, wavy hair, curly hair, and always at least a couple on my chin of what I call “brushes”, that look like Zeus’ bundle of thunderbolts.

Re Bluesky Elder tag: “This was the moment when we discovered that Bluesky was actually Theranos 2.0, and Jay Graber, Elizabeth Holmes all along”

www.maptap.gg June 2 98🎯 95🏆 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 993 Again, 2 places in the States…

I’m having 4 days old leftover ‘bisaltos’ (< Pisum sativum, subsp. arvense, “field peas”) for lunch. #LivingMyBestLife #HealthHazard

WTF only 6 months after this started and I’ve just plucked another but this time from inside one of my nostrils. Why, Gods, why?

www.maptap.gg June 2 98🎯 95🏆 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 993 Again, 2 places in the States…

I should practice this not talking about you-know-what-place. Let’s see… well, today is Saint Iñigo’s feast, so maybe we could celebrate it by admiring Banqueting House, one of the masterpieces of Inigo Jones, a pioneer of Renaissance architecture in England who was named after that saint.

Have I mentioned before about that time I was harassed in Irkutsk? Twice in the same day, actually.

Let’s learn Meadow Mari. Let’s learn Tundra Nenets. Let’s learn Forest Enets.

i raise you Tok Pisin ⟨long⟩!

This is one of the bits that confused me the most as a kid (in my lect): Ende ay-riba - FROM up there Ende-a’y-riba - TOWARDS up there Ende-hay arriba - There is SOME above Virtually no difference unless pronounced carefully, and always confusing if the place starts with an ‘a’.

www.maptap.gg June 1 100🎯 93🎉 95🏅 93🎉 98🎯 Final score: 956 Three locations in the US: not fair!

Now in #paperback, Francisco Bethencourt's Strangers Within provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History

a 12th-century Psalter from Egypt, written in multiple scripts and languages: Ge’ez, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, and Armenian. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

17th-century manuscript from Madagascar written in the Antemoro-Malagasy language www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

Chronicle of the Bamum kingdom, Cameroon www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-histor...

Rereading after many years this local history book written in 1880, and I’m enjoying the Celtiberian Aragonese possessives in these 12-13th century texts copied by the author.

Por ende tal amigo • non ha como el libro • pora sabios digo • que con torpes non me libro ∴ “In sum, no friend like a book — to the wise, that is, and the fool isn’t worth my rebuke” Santob de Carrion in gorgeous letter press Courtesy of www.letterandspiritpress.org 🥰

and the original for good measure

Conversations with a Madeira caffinch 💫

A Goth in Timbuktu !

A bowl from the early 11th century, produced in Cordoba, depicting a woman sitting on a mattress while drinking. She has kohl—a type of powder eyeliner—on, and we see on her cheek a curled sidelock a hairstyle of Abbasid origins. 🧵 [1/4]

It is interesting that “hook-shaped” curled sidelocks survived in the city of Tlemcen (western Algeria) until the early years of the 20th century, likely introduced by Andalusi refugees during the medieval period. A Jewish woman from Tlemcen, c. 1890. [4/4]