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Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it was known as The Land of the Hatti and was inhabited by the Hittites .
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Map of North America. 1796. Winterbotham, W. 1:22m. The Russian Spider Sits Atop the World and Watches for More Victims. 1940. Burke, Howard A. (1900-?) Charte des Stillen Weltmeers im Nördlichen Aequator und der Küsten die es auf beiden Seiten einschraenken : nach den neuesten, von den Spaniern, Russen und Engellaendern bis 1780 gemachten ...
Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days. Empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics
This is a collection of 283 beautiful historical maps of Asia Minor (including the Armenian Highlands), the Caucasus, Iran, and neighboring lands including the Aegean Basin, the Levant, and northern Africa, from around 1500 B.C. to around 1500 A.D. Cartographers include: Samuel Butler, William Shepherd, Ramsey Muir, Heinrich Kiepert, William ...
Now, you can zoom around this huge, detailed map of the ancient world labeled with cities from all sorts of archaeological records, classical text references and European imagery.
Map of Asia Minor and the adjacent Mediterranean lands in Roman times. Asia was a term which in the books of the Maccabees actually means Asia Minor, which Antioch III (the Great) had to give up to the Roman province of Asia Proconsularis (formed after 133 B.C.), which embraced the regions of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia (see Rom 16:5; II ...
Historical Maps of Asia. By John C. Huntington. Click on a category listing to expand the content contained within that section Click on a thumbnail to expand a map image to fill your browser's window. To save an image of a map, either drag-and-drop the expanded image to your desktop, or click on the "DOWNLOAD" link below it.
A New & Accurate of the Whole Russian Empire as contain'd both in Europe and Asia Publication Info: London: 1747; drawn from authentic journals, surveys, and most approved modern maps and regulated by astronomical observations
The cartography of Asia can refer to the representation of Asia on a map, or to depictions of the world by cartographers from Asia. Depictions of portions of Asia have existed on maps as early as the 6th century BCE, with maps being drafted to depict the Babylonian, Hellenistic Greek, and Han dynasty empires.
Explore the ancient world in this interactive map. Select a date an see cities, kingdoms and empires rise and fall.
Map of Asia Minor in the early 1st century CE with the Kingdom of Commagene as a Roman client state.
M Burg. sculp. Univ. Oxon. (to accompany) A new sett of maps both of antient and present geography. 27.; 11181.030; Copper engraved double page map. Showing political divisions. Relief shown pictorially.
From "A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography" by Edward Wells an English clergyman, teacher and mathematician, born in 1667. All map are dedicated to William the Duke of Gloucester who died 1700, the year of the first edition of the atlas.
Maps include stops on the outbound voyage from Egypt including Port Said, Suez Canal, Red Sea and Aden as well as maps of India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Bangkok and the Dutch East Indies.
The world map was turned with east on top, centered on the ancient city of Balasagun (Kyrgyzstan), showing the Caspian Sea to the north, and Iraq, Armenia, Yemen, and Egypt to the west, China and Japan to the east, Hindustan and Kashmir to the south.
Asia, ancient Roman province, the first and westernmost Roman province in Asia Minor, stretching at its greatest extent from the Aegean coast in the west to a point beyond Philomelium (now Akşehır, Turkey) in the east and from the Sea of Marmara in the north to the strait between Rhodes and the mainland in the south.
Anatolia, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey. Because of its location at the point where the continents of Asia and Europe meet, Anatolia was, from the beginnings of civilization, a crossroads for numerous peoples migrating or conquering from either continent.
This collection consists of almost 40 East Asian maps, manuscripts, woodblock prints and rubbings, in Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian. It features all the ancient maps in East Asian languages in our holdings.
The Indus civilization was the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent—one of the world’s three earliest civilizations, along with Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
The Ancient Northeast Asians (ANA, yellow area) are defined as a cluster of Neolithic populations from the Altai Mountains to the Pacific coast. They were bordered by Western Eurasian populations to the west, which combined BMAC, Afanasievo and Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) ancestry. [1]In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient Northeast Asian (ANA), [2] [3] also known as Amur ancestry, [4] is the ...