anatopism

anatopism
A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.

A described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism. <!:The Polish writer , for the sake of making a point, introduces into chapter 63 of his historical novel "Pharaoh", set in the Ancient Egypt of 1085 B.C.E., a substance that behaves like gunpowder; this appears to be both an anachronism and an anatopism, since gunpowder is thought to have been invented, probably quite some time later, in China or in Arabia. Another apparent anatopism introduced by the author (in chapter 45) is something resembling a telescope, that may also be an anachronism.


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