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Elam — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Sep 23, 2022 09:19 PM

An ancient Pre-Iranian civilization located in the west and southwest of modern-day Iran.

Epirus — by W.M. Murray — last modified Apr 22, 2024 05:18 PM

An ancient region that included northwest parts of modern Greece and the southern tip of modern Albania.

Etruria/Tuscia (region) — by W.V. Harris — last modified Nov 26, 2024 05:39 PM

Etruria/Tuscia was an ancient region of Central Italy inhabited by the Etruscans. Its spatial footprint was roughly equivalent to the modern Italian regions of Toscana and northern Lazio.

Ionia (region) — by C. Foss — last modified Nov 07, 2023 11:23 AM

The coast of Asia Minor between Aeolis and Caria, known as Jaena/Jaman in Akkadian sources.

Italia (region) — by I.E.M. Edlund Berry — last modified Oct 11, 2022 11:07 AM

That portion of the Toe of Italy lying to the south of the Terina/Scylletium isthmus as known to the Greeks in the 5th century BCE. Thus called after the Itali who inhabited it at that time.

Katakekaumene — by T. Drew Bear — last modified Aug 30, 2024 05:32 PM

An area of western Asia Minor characterized by its ashy soil and volcanic rocks.

Kynouria — by G. Reger — last modified Nov 08, 2024 09:49 AM

Kynouria was a district on the eastern coast of Peloponnesus, located between the Argeia and Laconia.

Lacedaemon/Laconia — by G. Reger — last modified Jun 30, 2023 05:56 PM

Lacedaemon/Laconia is a region comprising the south-eastern part of the Peloponnese.

Liguria (region) — by M. Pearce — last modified Aug 21, 2023 06:54 AM

Liguria is a coastal region of northwest Italy.

Lydia/Maionia (region) — by C. Foss — last modified Jun 30, 2023 05:50 PM

Lydia was a region in Western Asia Minor, situated between Ionia on the west, Caria on the south, Phrygia on the east, and Mysia on the north. It was home to an Iron Age kingdom (q.v), and gave its name to a succession of administrative areas of the Roman empire and other states.

Mat Tamti — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Sep 25, 2022 11:27 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 93 B2 Mat Tamti

Media/Mad(aya) (region) — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jul 30, 2023 06:26 AM

Media/Mad(aya) was a region of northwestern Iran.

Mesopotamia (region) — by M. Roaf — last modified Aug 16, 2024 02:50 PM

An important region surrounding the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, roughly corresponding to most of modern Iraq and Kuwait, eastern Syria, and Southeastern Turkey. Mesopotamia was a critical part of many empires and kingdoms, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, and the Seleucids. It was also a site of intense conflict between the Roman, Parthian, and Sassanid Empires until the 7th century Muslim conquest.

Messenia — by G. Reger — last modified Aug 16, 2023 07:23 PM

Messenia was the southwestern district of the Peloponnesus. It was bounded on the east by Laconia, on the north by Elis and Arcadia, and on the south and west by the sea.

Mysia (region in Bythinia) — by C. Foss — last modified May 25, 2023 05:52 PM

According to some ancient authors, the Mysi (a Thracian people who migrated into Asia Minor) originally inhabited Bithynia before moving further south and west, whence this regional name that the Barrington Atlas places between the Askania Limne (modern Lake Iznik in Turkey) and the Propontis.

Mysia (region) — by C. Foss — last modified May 25, 2023 05:38 PM

A region of northwestern Asia Minor that ancient sources associate with the Mysi, a people who had migrated there from Thrace, probably late in the second millennium BCE. Sources vary on the extent and subdivisions of the region, but in general it seems to have been at least roughly bounded on the north by the Hellespont and Propontis, on the east by the Rhyndacus river (modern Mustafakemalpaşa) and mount Olympus (Ulu Dağ), and on the west either by the Aisepos river (Gönen Çayı) or (if the Troad is taken to be part of Mysia) the Aegean Sea.

Paphlagonia (region) — by C. Foss — last modified May 26, 2023 04:07 PM

The ancient region as defined in the Barrington Atlas (BAtlas 86 C2 Paphlagonia)

Peiraieus/Piraeus — by J.S. Traill — last modified Jun 27, 2024 01:03 PM

The ancient, fortified port settlement of ancient Athens. It was also the coastal deme of the tribe Hippothoontis.

Phoenice (region) — by E.M. Meyers — last modified Nov 22, 2024 04:43 PM

Ancient Phoenicia.

Phrygia — by T. Drew Bear — last modified May 26, 2023 04:09 PM

Phrygia was a region of west-central Anatolia.