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Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
The location of Capidava is verified by an inscription mentioning a vexillatio Capidabesium and on the measurements made on the ground, following the distance indicated in the Tabula Peutingeriana. [35] The fort is rectangular with NW-SE sides of 105 x 127 m (1.33 ha) with walls over 2 m thick and 5–6 m high. It had 7 towers over 10 m, 3 of ...
The Tabula Peutingeriana (Peutinger table) is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. It is a 13th-century copy of an original map dating from the 4th century, covering Europe, parts of Asia (India) and North Africa.
Tabula Peutingeriana: Place in the Roman world; Province: Dacia: Capital of: Dacia Malvensis: Administrative unit: Dacia Malvensis: Administrative unit: Dacia Inferior: Directly connected to: Acidava; Castra Nova; Pelendava; Sucidava; Structure — Stone structure — Size and area: 216 m × 183 m (3,9 [1] ha) — Wood and earth structure —
Tabula Peutingeriana: Place in the Roman world; Province: Moesia: Administrative unit: Moesia Inferior: Directly connected to: Histriopolis; Stratonis; Stationed military units — Legions — vexill. V Macedonica [1] vexill. XI Claudia [2] — Cohorts — I Cilicum [3] I Thracum [4] VII Gallorum [5] — Alae — I Atectorum [6] I Pannoniorum ...
A portion of the Tabula Peutingeriana. The Turin Papyrus Map is sometimes characterized as the earliest known road map. Drawn around 1160 BC, it depicts routes along dry river beds through a mining region east of Thebes in Ancient Egypt. [1] The Dura-Europos Route map is the oldest known map of (a part of) Europe preserved in its original form ...
Amutria on Tabula Peutingeriana (upper center) Amutria (Amutrion, Amutrium, Admutrium, [1] Ad Mutrium, Ad Mutriam, Ancient Greek: Ἀμούτριον [2]) was a Dacian town close to the Danube and included in the Roman road network, after the conquest of Dacia. The name is homonymous with the ancient name of the nearby Motru River. Its possible ...
English: Part of Tabula Peutingeriana centered around present day Transylvania (north western Romania), 1-4th century CE. Facsimile edition by Conradi Millieri, 1887/1888 Facsimile edition by Conradi Millieri, 1887/1888