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Chronological

200

Pre-Classical

15 maps, last one added on Oct 22, 2014

Classical

13 maps, last one added on Jun 10, 2018

Hellenistic

26 maps, last one added on Feb 22, 2018

Roman

61 maps, last one added on Jan 06, 2019

Medieval and Later

85 maps, last one added on Mar 14, 2019

5 atlases on 1 page(s)

Europe

155

Ancient Mediterranean

29 maps, last one added on Jun 24, 2018

Ancient Britannia

19 maps, last one added on Jan 20, 2018

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

6 maps, last one added on Nov 06, 2017

Ancient Thrace

8 maps, last one added on Jan 01, 2019

10 atlases on 1 page(s)

Asia

Ancient Asia

13 maps, last one added on Nov 01, 2017

Ancient Anatolia

29 maps, last one added on Nov 10, 2018

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

9 maps, last one added on Dec 13, 2018

Ancient Afganistan to India

2 maps, last one added on Oct 22, 2013

Far East

3 maps, last one added on Aug 17, 2018

9 atlases on 1 page(s)

Africa

Ancient Africa

5 maps, last one added on Jun 06, 2014

Ancient North Africa

9 maps, last one added on Jan 19, 2019

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 - Rome and Carthage at the start of the Second Punic War 218 BC466 viewsThe Second Punic War, 218 - 201 B.C., is most remembered for Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, followed by his crushing victories over Rome in the battle of the Trebia, at Trasimene, and again at Cannae. After these defeats, many Roman allies joined Carthage, prolonging the war in Italy for over a decade. Against Hannibal's skill on the battlefield, the Romans deployed the Fabian strategy. More capable in siegecraft, the Romans recaptured all the major cities that had defected. The Romans defeated an attempt to reinforce Hannibal at the battle of the Metaurus and, in Iberia, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major took New Carthage and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in the Battle of Ilipa. The final showdown was the Battle of Zama in Africa where Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal, resulting in the imposition of harsh peace conditions on Carthage, which ceased to be a major power and became a Roman client-state.

Map - 1547 AD Central Europe337 views

Map - Panorama Italiano241 views"Panorama Italiano" 1861, from the Gianni Brandozzi collection.

Map - 814 AD Europe at the Death of Charles the Great351 views

Map - 1700 AD Europe371 views

Map - 650 AD Byzantine Empire662 viewsThe Byzantine Empire in 650 - by this year it had lost all of its southern provinces except the Exarchate of Africa.

Map - 1300 BC The Hittite Empire at the height of its power (red), bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green)770 viewsThe Hittite Empire at the height of its power (red), bordering on the Egyptian Empire (green), c. 1300 BC .

Map - The frontier between the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries)786 viewsThe frontier between the Roman/Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires in Late Antiquity (4th-7th centuries). Basemap taken from Image:Arshakuni Armenia 150-en.svg. Sources: G. Greatrex & S.N.C. Lieu: The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (Part II, 363�630 AD). Routledge 2002, ISBN 0-415-14687-9, pp. xxix�xxxii; R.W. Thomson, J. Howard-Johnston & T. Greenwood: The Armenian history attributed to Sebeos Liverpool University Press 1999, ISBN 0-85323-564-3, pp. 360�363; Map of the cities listed in Hierocles' Synecdemus after Ernest Honigmann, Le Synecd�mos d'Hi�rocl�s et l'opuscule g�ographique de Georges de Chypre, Brussels 1939

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Map - Greek and Latin states in southern Greece, c. 12102 viewsPolitical map of southern Greece in c. 1210, after the establishment of the Crusader states following the Fourth Crusade.

After Constantinople was conquered during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Greece was divided among the Crusaders. The Latin Empire held Constantinople and Thrace, while Greece itself was divided into the Kingdom of Thessalonica, the Principality of Achaea, and the Duchy of Athens. The Venetians controlled the Duchy of the Archipelago in the Aegean, and the Despotate of Epirus was established as one of the three Byzantine Greek successor states. Michael VIII restored the empire in 1261, having also regained the Kingdom of Thessalonica. By his death in 1282, Michael had taken back the Aegean islands, Thessaly, Epirus, and most of Achaea, including the Crusader fortress of Mystras, which became the seat of a Byzantine despotate. However, Athens and the northern Peloponnese remained in Crusader hands. With the exception of the Ionian Islands and some isolated forts which remained in Venetian hands until the turn of the 19th century, the final end of the Frankokratia in the Greek lands came with the Ottoman conquest, chiefly in the 14th to 16th centuries.Mar 14, 2019

Map 1214 The Latin Empire2 viewsThe borders of the Latin Empire and Byzantine Empire after the 4th crusade (1204) up to the Treaty of Nymphaeum in 1214. Mar 13, 2019

Map - German States, Brandenburg, 1320 A.D.8 viewsMap - German States, Brandenburg, 1320 A.D.Feb 17, 2019

6th Century Medeba Mosaic Map (Click on image to enlarge)14 viewsThis map was originally part of the floor of a Byzantine church, built during the reign of emperor Justinian, AD 527-565. It is the oldest map of the Holy Land that is still extant. The original size of the map was approximately 51 ft x 19.5 ft (15.5 m x 6 m), although no borders are visible. The map is made of various colors. It has 150 Greek inscriptions in various sizes, and covers the area from Tyre in the north to the Egyptian Delta in the south.

The modern Arab village of Medeba (Madaba) is built on the ruins of biblical Medeba and it was during the construction of the modern Church of St. George that the �Madaba Map� was found.
Jan 19, 2019

Map 450 A.D. - Attila and the Roman Empire22 viewsEmpire of Attila and the Roman Empire around 450 AD. Settlement area of Germanic tribes within the Imperium Roman are marked, controlled areas are in color.Jan 06, 2019

Map - Thracian Chersonese (Gallipoli)17 viewsMap of ancient Thracian Chersonese (Gallipoli)Jan 01, 2019

Map 300 A.D. - The Tetrarchy23 viewsMap of the Roman Empire under the tetrarchy, showing the dioceses and the four tetrarchs' zones of influence post 299 after Diocletian and Galerius had exchanged their allocated provinces.Dec 21, 2018

Map - Kingdom of Northumbria 802 AD27 viewsKingdom of Northumbria 802 AD

The Kingdom of Northumbria was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland. The name derives from the Old English Nor�an-hymbre meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", which reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary. Northumbria started to consolidate into one kingdom in the early seventh century. At its height, the kingdom extended from just south of the Humber to the River Mersey and to the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. Northumbria ceased to be an independent kingdom in the mid-tenth century.Dec 16, 2018