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Chronological

184

Pre-Classical

15 maps, last one added on Oct 22, 2014

Classical

12 maps, last one added on Mar 23, 2016

Hellenistic

23 maps, last one added on Jun 19, 2017

Roman

55 maps, last one added on Mar 23, 2016

Medieval and Later

79 maps, last one added on Aug 18, 2017

5 atlases on 1 page(s)

Europe

151

Ancient Mediterranean

28 maps, last one added on Oct 23, 2014

Ancient Britannia

18 maps, last one added on Oct 24, 2014

Ancient Iberia

5 maps, last one added on Jan 25, 2014

Ancient Gaul

7 maps, last one added on Feb 12, 2014

Ancient Germania

3 maps, last one added on Jun 22, 2013

Ancient Italy

30 maps, last one added on Aug 03, 2015

Ancient Sicily

7 maps, last one added on Oct 07, 2015

Ancient Greece

41 maps, last one added on Feb 23, 2016

Ancient Macedonia

5 maps, last one added on Jan 26, 2014

Ancient Thrace

7 maps, last one added on Oct 23, 2014

10 atlases on 1 page(s)

Asia

Ancient Asia

14 maps, last one added on Oct 20, 2014

Ancient Anatolia

28 maps, last one added on Jul 04, 2017

Ancient Armenia

4 maps, last one added on Dec 23, 2013

Ancient Syria

4 maps, last one added on Feb 10, 2014

Ancient Persia

8 maps, last one added on Sep 14, 2014

Ancient Phoenicia

4 maps, last one added on Jan 02, 2014

Ancient Judaea and Palestine

7 maps, last one added on Jan 18, 2015

Ancient Afganistan to India

1 maps, last one added on Oct 22, 2013

8 atlases on 1 page(s)

Africa

Ancient Africa

5 maps, last one added on Jun 06, 2014

Ancient North Africa

8 maps, last one added on Apr 03, 2014

Ancient Carthage

8 maps, last one added on Dec 11, 2013

Ancient Egypt

5 maps, last one added on Jun 25, 2013

4 atlases on 1 page(s)

Americas

Pre-Columbian Americas

1 maps, last one added on Jun 18, 2013

1 atlases on 1 page(s)

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Map - The Armenian Empire of Tigranes 292 views

Map - Anatolia and Syria360 viewsAnatolia and Syria

Map - 301 B.C. Hellenistic Kingdoms before the Battle of Ipsus580 views

Map - The main sanctuaries of classical Greece295 views

Map - Roman Empire at its Height280 views

Map - Antioch in the 6th Century AD540 viewsThe ruins of Antioch on the Orontes lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century B.C. by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch's geographic, military and economic location, particularly the spice trade, the Silk Road, the Persian Royal Road, benefited its occupants, and eventually it rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East and as the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Antioch is called "the cradle of Christianity," for the pivotal early role it played in the emergence of the faith. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Its residents are known as Antiochenes. Once a great metropolis of half a million people, it declined to insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes and a change in trade routes following the Mongol conquests, which then no longer passed through Antioch from the far east.

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Last additions

Sassanian Empire 621 A.D.0 viewsThe Sasanian Persian Empire at its greatest extent, 621 A.D.Aug 18, 2017

Kingdom of Lydia at the time of King Croesus25 viewsThe edge of the brown area is the border of Lydia at the middle of the 6th century BC, at the time of King Croesus. The red line was the 7th century BC border, roughly from 690 to 546 BC.Jul 04, 2017

19th Century Reconstruction of Hecataeus' Map of the World36 viewsHecataeus of Miletus was an early Greek historian and geographer. He is believed to have written the first book on geography in 500 BC. He believed that the earth was a flat disk surrounded by the ocean. Jun 19, 2017

1883 Reconstruction of Eratosthenes� map34 viewsEratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BCE) invented the discipline of geography and the terminology used today. His map incorporates the information from Alexander the Great's campaigns. Eratosthenes was also the first geographer to incorporate parallels and meridians in his cartographic depictions.Jun 19, 2017

A 1628 Reconstruction of Posidonius Ideas about the Position of Continents.30 viewsPosidonius of Apameia (c. 135�51 BCE) was a Greek Stoic philosopher that showed how the forces effected one another and also human life. He measured the Earth's circumference by using the star Canopus. He measured 240,000 stadia (24,000 miles) which is close to the actual circumference of 24,901 miles.Jun 19, 2017

Map 635 AD Muslim-Byzantine troop movement289 viewsMuslim-Byzantine troop movement from September 635 to just before the event of the Battle of Yarmouk.

In 629, the Islamic prophet Muhammad had recently succeeded in unifying all of the nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Those tribes had previously been too divided to pose a serious military threat to the Byzantines or the Persians. Now unified and animated by their new conversion to Islam, they comprised one of the most powerful states in the region. The first conflict between the Byzantines and Muslims was the Battle of Mu'tah in September 629. A small Muslim skirmishing force attacked the province of Arabia but were repulsed. Because the engagement was a Byzantine victory, there was no apparent reason to make changes to the military configuration of the region. Also, once the severity of the Muslim threat was realized, the Byzantines had little preceding battlefield experience with the Arabs, and even less with zealous soldiers united by a prophet. Even the Strategicon, a manual of war praised for the variety of enemies it covers, does not mention warfare against Arabs at any length. The following year the Muslims launched raids into the Arabah south of Lake Tiberias, taking Al Karak. Other raids penetrated into the Negev reaching as far as Gaza. The Battle of Yarmouk in 636 resulted in a crushing defeat for the larger Byzantine army; within three years, the Levant had been lost again. By the time of Heraclius' death in Constantinople, on February 11, 641, most of Egypt had fallen as well.Jun 18, 2016

Map - 1200 AD Anatolia223 viewsAD 1200 AnatoliaJun 15, 2016

MAP - 555 AD - Byzantine Empire Under Justinian227 viewsThe Eastern Roman Empire (red) and its vassals (pink) in 555 AD during the reign of Justinian I.May 21, 2016