Editing Talk:Arkady

== mountains of Turkey? ==

According to the route Arkady sketched out on the cavern floor, they had not yet reached Samarkand nor Baghdad. So were they already in the mountains of Turkey as it was in 1806? Or were the mountains actually in another country?

[[User:LadyLyn|LadyLyn]] 16:36, 17 August 2007 (PDT)

[http://www.euratlas.com/big/big1800.htm Map of Europe in 1800]  

[http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/arabworld/haxsyria.html Maps of Syria showing the borders of the Ottoman Empire]  

It does seem unlikely that they were in the what we would consider the mountains of Turkey as the Turkish/Ottoman border never reaches past the Caspian Sea and Samarkand is well on the other side of of the Caspian Sea.  Eastern Turkey is rather mountainous and maps of the time (especially for that area) were notoriously inaccurate.  If they are near Samarkand, they are still smack in the middle of lots of mountains.  The British try mapping the area later (late 1800s) and just give up because it has too many mountains, and they'd had enough of mountains by the time they made it there from India.  Even today, maps of that area are notoriously inaccurate.
 
--[[User:Mooir|Mooir]] 22:56, 17 August 2007 (PDT)

One source I ran across suggested that what was later named the Ottoman Empire had been referred to simply as Turkey during each era up until modern history books named it more precisely. But that still doesn't put our group in the "mountains of Turkey." That said, I think an adjustment of the text is warranted (I hate making changes without some consensus).

[[User:LadyLyn|LadyLyn]] 09:31, 25 August 2007 (PDT)

== Ah-ha! ==

The opening of EoI specifically states "the Pamirs." 
[[User:LadyLyn|LadyLyn]] 18:26, 30 September 2007 (PDT)