Some Maps of the Roman Empire

The maps on this section of my website are taken from an unidentified late 19c English-language school atlas of the Roman world. It is not the best atlas, nor do I have the full set of maps or the index. At the time I put them online, I was rescuing them, so to speak, since their owner, Jim Miller, was about to lose his website. Although that did not happen, in July 2001 Mr. Miller died: and this disparate collection of older print maps, rather too large, with occasional scholarship and readability problems, that I can neither fix or identify, will remain onsite for the foreseeable future.

What is clearly needed is a clickable CAD-type zooming system, tailor-made for computers: I'm looking at various solutions of this type. As usual, stay tuned: LacusCurtius's What's New page is updated every time pages are added, which is often daily.

For now:

What's Here?

In addition to the ancient names (Roman names) as they appear on the maps:

variants of the Latin names not appearing on the maps
the modern names of the referenced places
latitudes and longitudes
the latitudes and longitudes as given in Antiquity by Claudius Ptolemy
(Good place to plug this: An electronic edition of Ptolemy's Geography can be found here. I've applied the nice capabilities of my Macintosh to Ptolemy's data. Result: this primary source is being translated into some nifty clean-looking readable maps — 18 of them so far).
bibliographical references (for now very sparse, but if nothing else I've started including the refs in Pliny the Elder and I hope to add those in Strabo)
links to any webpages on the Roman Gazetteer section of LacusCurtius
links to the best and most stable websites offsite.

On each map, the database will precede the map; you have something to read or search while the map loads. (Once I figure out exactly how to proceed, the maps will be in much smaller chunks. . . .)

Indexing this Monster

This page contains two lists:

The short one, first, is a Table of Maps: a list of Roman-related maps on this site. If you just want to browse, this is where you'll be clicking. Some maps already overlap, by the way; and as maps are added, that'll be the norm.

Not all the Empire is covered yet (missing: Britain, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Dacia, the Peloponnesus, Cyprus, Mesopotamia).

The long list is an Index of Placenames: all the placenames on this site, each one linked to the map(s) it can be found on. When this index gets too long, it will be moved to another page.

Table of Maps

Map	Indexed?	Size	Comments
The maps are quite large. For your convenience, they therefore open in a separate window, allowing you to toggle back and forth between this index window and that one without irritating reloads. If you believe you need and expect a "back" button — now how would I know where you've come from? — you should either toggle to the other window or use one of the clearly labeled buttons provided at the bottom of each page.
Europe
Iberia
Northern Iberia		1117 K
Southern Iberia		674 K
Baetica	yes	259 K
Tarraconensis		305 K
Gaul
Northern Gaul		767 K
Southern Gaul		631 K
Germania		852 K
Greece
NW Greece		1117 K	the W side of Greece, from N of Epirus down to the S (Peloponnesus) shore of the Gulf of Corinth
E Greece		688 K	in modern terms, E Central Greece, from Mt. Olympus down to the Gulf of Corinth
Italy
Liguria		326 K	Much of Northwestern Italy, actually
Northeastern Italy		1058 K
North Central Italy		1044 K
Latium	partly	294 K
South Central Italy		1064 K
Campania		236 K
Southern Italy
Pannonia		1278 K
Rhaetia		764 K
Thrace		958 K
Africa
Cyrene		562 K
Egypt
Map 1		201 K
Map 2		902 K
Mauretania		794 K
Numidia		236 K
Asia
Asia Minor
Map 1		789 K
Map 2		922 K
Map 3		938 K
Map 4		448 K
Syria		925 K