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The map of Ireland is included on the "first European map" sections (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπης πίναξ αʹ, romanized: Eurōpēs pínax alpha or Latin: Prima Europe tabula) of Ptolemy's Geography (also known as the Geographia and the Cosmographia). The "first European map" is described in the second and third chapters of the work's ...
The Anglo-Saxon 'Cotton' world map (c. 1040). Britain and Ireland are bottom left. This map appears in a copy of a classical work on geography, the Latin version by Priscian of the Periegesis, that was among the manuscripts in the Cotton library (MS. Tiberius B.V., fol. 56v), now in the British Library.
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography , written c. 150 . Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
The Ancient Greeks initially used the term Illyris to define approximately the area of northern and central Albania down to the Aoös valley (modern Vjosa) and the Bay of Vlorë, including in most periods much of the lakeland area (Ohrid and Prespa). It corresponded to the region that neighboured Macedonia and Epirus.
The toponym is attested as Βύλλις, η on epigraphic material from the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, and as Βουλλίς Boullis by Ptolemy in his Geography.The city ethnic is attested as Βυλλίων Byllion on the inscription of an oracular lead tablet from Dodona dating back to the 4th century BC [16] [17] and on coins of the Hellenistic era dating back to the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, or as ...
World Heritage Sites ; Site Image Location () Year listed UNESCO data Description Butrint: Vlorë: 1992 570; iii (cultural) Butrint (Latin: Buthrōtum) was an ancient Greek city, then a Roman one and the seat of a late Roman bishopric After a period of abandonment it was occupied by the Byzantines the Angevins and the Venetians.
A collection of communists moved quickly after the Second World War to subdue all potential political enemies in Albania, break the country's landowners and minuscule middle class, and isolate Albania from western powers in order to establish the People's Republic of Albania. In 1945, the communists had liquidated, discredited, or driven into ...
Butrint (Greek: Βουθρωτόν and Βουθρωτός [2], romanized: Bouthrōtón, Latin: Buthrōtum, Albanian: Butrint) was an ancient Greek polis and later Roman city and the seat of an early Christian bishopric in Epirus.