Crimea, northeast of Acmescit

Posting a rather bleak area of the Crimea, just north of the Crimean mountains.

This employs something we haven't seen before ... a river ending in an arrow, rather than debouching in a body of water.  These rivers run all year round, nearly.  However, with the lack of rainfall, and especially with an unavailable groundwater table to sustain the river's flow, a small amount of irrigation is enough to cause the river to dry up.  The arrow head indicates a non-specific location.  Some years the river may get further, others not so far.

In places where a river like this is highly intermittent, meaning it only runs when it rains, then the river is represented by a dashed line.  I don't expect we'll see a river like this in these maps for a long, long time, but it's worth explaining its presence anyway.

Aqmescit, incidentally, is modern Simferopol.  I'll write more about it later.