For some reason my mental model of the eastern Mediterranean, to the east of Italy, has always been scrunched up where I thought of it as much smaller than the western Mediterranean. But it’s actually slightly larger if you draw the dividing line through Venice. And the Italian and Greek peninsulas are much larger than I thought. And I just got oriented on where Croatia is. That is the Dalmatian coast across from Italy. I thought it was inland near Serbia for some reason.

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Another reason I guess is that the last bit below Anatolia feels “Asian”.