Dear cartographers, today I would like to start a new City map. It shows the city of Ash'Suhr, the city on the Purat River in central Efforopotamia that grew up through trade. I'm dedicating myself to this region in a parallel thread ( https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ad.php?t=52546 ) and since both strands are supposed to be found together in an atlas, they basically belong together.

So here is the first basic graphical concept of this city, which in 1350 NA is a thriving trading metropolis, which is then supposed to become the center of the expansion of the empire of Ash'Suhr in 750 NA, before the brutal King Jamshadh moves the capital to the neighboring city of Eshk'Suhr . Less than 20 years later, both Ash'Suhr and Eshk'Suhr are bulldozed and wiped out by an alliance led by Kabilla. Ash'Suhr alone is supposed to recover from this after many decades, while Eshk'Suhr is supposed to disappear from the face of the earth forever.

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and more focussed:

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The city itself lies on the Purat River, where the Shuddat River flows from the Ashmar Mountains into the Purat. Goods flow here from the north to the south and from the south to the north and Ash'suhr has been one of the most important transshipment points in the entire region for several centuries. The port of Ash'Suhr is known far beyond the borders of the region. Boats from the mighty Kabilla and Urchoi are moored here and on some days you can see the agile boats of the Sand Elves from Vanaela and the pot-bellied trough tugs of the dwarven tribes from the Torros Mountains in the north. Above the city in the northeast, on a high plateu, lies the ancient cult city of Ash'Suhr with its ziggurat, temples and administrative and royal palaces. Below that is the old city of Ash'Suhr with its harbor, markets and residential areas. This district was considered impregnable at the time with its defensive moat and its mighty two walls. In the southeast, the growing city was expanded, parallel to the Purat River.

The city has a circumference of around 6 km, an area of ​​around 1.56 square kilometers (156 hectares or 385 acres) and in 1340 NA a very high population density with around 200,000 inhabitants, of which a good 40,000 of them must have been slaves . The length of the city walls is estimated at around 10.5 km