this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
216 points (97.8% liked)

Map Enthusiasts

5005 readers
95 users here now

For the map enthused!

Rules:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
zksmk@sopuli.xyz
garfaagel@sh.itjust.works
216
What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Source: https://brilliantmaps.com/bishop-chess-piece-europe/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] merde@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I get Spain, but why is it that so often with these maps Eastern Europe shares the same word as the Arab world?

Ottoman empire ruled the eastern Europe for some centuries and Ottoman language was a mixture of Turkish, Persian and Arabic.

Territorial changes of the Ottoman Empire 1672

but i assume that the elephant is Indian influence rather than Arabic. IIRC, that's also where the game is conceived

edit, yes, it literally is an elephant โ˜ž https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga