A vast, vague European geographic term used for 450 years — now the centre of one of the internet's most-discussed theories. This section doesn't argue a side. It puts the maps, the buildings, the claims and the counter-claims next to each other and asks the questions plainly: what do we actually have here, and why does it look this way?
How to read this section. Every page distinguishes between what's directly verifiable (a map sitting in an archive, a building standing in a city, an article that exists online) and what's an interpretation of that evidence — by either side. Sources are cited throughout. Where something can't be verified, that's stated plainly rather than smoothed over.