Byzantium, around Constantinople

A technically difficult part of the map, intensively infrastructured, lots of towns and the largest city I've included on any 6-mile map to day, Constantinople. I've started adding "market" points to the numbers on these maps, though this is catch-up work I'll do occasionally. Interest in these has dwindled, so I'm doing them for myself and a few others, not many, so it doesn't really matter. The map above follows the 41st latitude at it's bottom, which is why it's cut off.

I suppose that's all to say. Constantinople was, for about 500 years, the richest city in the world and arguably the center of all trade and travel everywhere.  Even in 1650 it retained much of its romance, but it's financial importance had been bypassed by the mouth of the Rhone, which became the crossroads of Europe and the New World, as well as the destination point for good arriving by sea from Japan, the East Indies and China.  Poor Contantinople... soon to be renamed, ultimately just a sad leftover from its former self.