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asoiaf analogies to real world geographies:
-The Jade Sea to the far east is Asia -The Summer Islanders are African -The Dornish are Moorish Spain -The Free Cities are the rest of the Mediterranean and Turkey (thus Syrio and Illyrio, and the Titan of Braavos as the Colossus of Rhodes). -Valyria is both Ancient Rome and the memory of Constantinople. -The other parts of Essos, including Slaver’s Bay and the Dothraki Sea, are Arabia,...
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