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Maps and Geography of the Ancient World

Geographic entities here do not correspond well with those in a modern atlas:
  • Most of the "known world" follows a band north, south, and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Ancient maps of Rome (or the Roman Empire) include much of what we think of as Europe, parts of Asia, and Northern Africa.
  • The geographic borders of Asia fluctuated with the dominant empires; Sudan and Egypt belong in both the Near East and Africa.

I've also provided a very handy alphabetical list of ancient places based on the Roman historian Tacitus: Geographical Index of Tacitus.

If I'm missing something or if you have a correction, please let me know.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

By Continent & Underworld

- A -

Aegean Maps

Africa Maps

Agade (Akkad) Maps

Akkad Maps, 1

Alexandria, Egypt

America Maps

Asia Maps

Asia Minor / Anatolia Maps

Asoka Maps

Assur, City of

Assyria, 1

Athens

Attica

- B -

Babylon, 1, 2

Barbarian Migrations Map

Balkans

Biblical Maps

Bithynia

Bitter River Maps

Byzantium [Sec. bC]

- C -

Canaan Maps

Caria

Carthage, 1

Chin Maps

China

Colchis [Sec. Lb]

Colophon

Commerce Map

Constantinople [Sec. bC]

Cyrene. Libya [Sec. Gg]

- D -

Dacia

- E -

Egypt Maps

Elam Maps

Ephesus Maps, 1

Euphrates River Maps

Eurasian Commerce Map

Europa Maps

Europe Maps

- F -

France (Franks)

- G -

Gaul, Northern Gaul, Southern Gaul

Germany (Germania)

Greece

Gupta Maps

- H -

Halicarnassus [Sec. Ic]

Halys River

Hana Maps

Hellespont [Sec. Qg]

Hispania Maps

- I -

Illyricum

India/Indus Valley Maps

"Iraq"

Isin

Israel

Italy

- J -

Japan Maps

Jerusalem Maps, 1

Judah Maps

- K -

Kish

- L -

Lagash (between the Tigris and Euphrates)

Larsa

Lemnos

Levant Maps

Libya Maps

Lycia

Lydia

- M -

Macedonia, 1

Mari (Tell Hariri, Syria)

Mauretania

Mauryan Maps

Mediterranean Maps

MesoAmerica Maps

Mesopotamia

Moesia 1, 2

Mount of Olives

Mysia

- N -

Near East Maps

Nicaea [Sec. bC]

Ninevah, 1, 2

Nippur, 1

Numidia Map

- O -

- P -

Palestine

Pannonia

Persian Empire Maps

Phrygia Maps

Pontus

- Q -

Qatar

- R -

Rhodes [Sec. Ic]

Rome Maps, Regions of Italy

- S -

Salamis [Sec. abD]

Samarra (in modern Iraq)

Samos

Sarmatia

Sea of Galilee

Shang Maps

Sidon Maps

Silk Road Map

Spain Map

Sudan Maps

Sumer Maps, 1

Susa

Syracuse

Syria Maps, 1

- T -

Tarsus (in modern Turkey)

Thebes, Greece

Thrace, 2

Tigris River

Tomis (Tomi) [Sec. Ib]

Troy

Tyre Maps

- U -

Underworld Maps

Ugarit (northern Syria)

Ur Map, 1, 2

Uruk Map, 1

- V -

- W -

World Maps 1, 2

- X -

- Y -

Yellow River Maps

- Z -

america NEAR EAST EUROPA EGYPT AFRICA AFRICA ASIA Herodotus world view
Herodotus World View Map © Clipart

Ancient Maps of Continents

Africa Maps
America Maps
Asia Maps
Europe Maps
Underworld Maps
Ancient World Maps

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