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Maurusii — by M. Euzennat — last modified Aug 03, 2019 05:04 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 28 D4 Maurusii

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

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

Megaris — by G. Reger — last modified Apr 14, 2024 04:30 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 58 E2 Megaris

Melitene — by T.B. Mitford — last modified Sep 20, 2022 10:09 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 64 E4 Melitene

Mesene/Characene/Shad Bahman/Maisan — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Aug 30, 2022 08:03 PM

Mesene/Characene/Shad Bahman/Maisan was a kingdom within the Parthian Empire founded ca. 127 BC under Aspasine.

Mesogaia — by J.S. Traill — last modified Dec 11, 2013 10:27 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 59 C2 Mesogaia

Mesopotamia (region) — by M. Roaf — last modified Sep 11, 2022 09:50 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.

Metalli Ulpiani — by J.J. Wilkes — last modified Nov 11, 2023 09:58 PM

The Metalli Ulpiani mining district

Mihragan Kadag (region) — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Sep 21, 2022 08:40 PM

Mihragan Kadag or "province of the house of Mihrag" was a region of Media located north of Khuzistan and west of Saymarah.

Milyas (region) — by C. Foss — last modified Sep 14, 2023 10:15 AM

According to Strabo, Milyas is a region that strethes from Termessus as far as Sagalassus and the territory of Apameia.

Misimia — by T. Sinclair — last modified May 16, 2017 09:20 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 87 G1 Misimia

Moab — by Ryan Horne — last modified Aug 03, 2020 05:55 AM

A mountainous strip of land in Jordan that was also the location of the kingdom of Moab, with its capital at Dibon.

Moab (kingdom) — by Jamie Novotny — last modified Oct 29, 2021 02:02 PM

An ancient Levantine kingdom located in what is today the modern state of Jordan.

Moxoena — by M. Roaf — last modified Sep 17, 2022 03:22 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 E2 Moxoena

Mygdonia — by C. Foss — last modified Jul 16, 2019 07:27 PM

Mygdonia was a region of northwestern Asia Minor. It takes its name from the Mygdones of Thrace who migrated to the northwestern part of Asia Minor in the Late Bronze Age.

Mygdonia — by E.N. Borza — last modified Sep 23, 2022 08:36 PM

Mygdonia was a region of ancient Macedonia.

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.

Nabataea (region) — by M. Roaf — last modified Oct 28, 2020 10:56 AM

Nabataea was an ancient region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans. This region covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea.

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