I took a map of the Kiev Palatinate in Latin for 1648 and superimposed it on a modern map of Ukraine with varying degrees of transparency. Download, compare. On it all the cities are in the form of stars. They were made of stone, antique. 50% of these cities do not exist now. The remains of the stellar bastion walls can be searched using this map via google maps. But it is difficult to find, since they have erased the stars from the surface of the earth thoroughly. Many of them are located at the bottom of the Dnieper reservoirs. Do not forget that all cities have been covered with clay by 3-4 meters since then. Also on the map are marked mountains (possibly man-made) that do not exist now. The channels of the tributaries of the Dnieper do not LOOP as they do now. They are more straightforward, like rivers in today's Western Europe. Trypillia is an antique star city just below Kiev. Some cities are slightly differentthere is an error in the old map. He combined the cities of Kiev and Kremenchug and took into account the channel of the Dnieper.
To understand what kind of star cities we are talking about, read the preliminary article who has not read: "The geography of the global world before nuclear war on the example of ancient architecture."
Why do the channels of modern rivers meander, read here: "An industrialized civilization has existed on Earth for tens of thousands of years."
Map from 1648 in high resolution, clickable:
Modern map. Clickable:
Overlay # 1. Transparency 75%. Clickable:
Promotional video:
Overlay # 2. Transparency 50%. Clickable:
Overlay # 3. Opaque. Clickable:
Those who want to practice Photoshop can overlay the map of Barklavia Palatinatus from 1639 (Vinnytsia region) and Podolia Palatinatus from the 17th century on modern maps of these places. All cities are marked with stars on the maps.
Barklavia Palatinatus. Clickable:
Podolia Palatinatus. Clickable:
Ps: to visually represent how filled up the cities are, see a photo of a dug house, if I'm not mistaken, in Kazan.
