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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 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 .
Physical map of Southeast Europe. The prehistory of Southeast Europe, defined roughly as the territory of the wider Southeast Europe (including the territories of the modern countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and European Turkey) covers the period from the Upper Paleolithic ...
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. It was finally abandoned in the late Middle Ages.
Ancient theatre in Butrint, Albania. Archaeology of Albania represents a field of significant importance in uncovering the history and ancient culture of the Balkan region. . Albania's geographical location has positioned it as a crossroads between the great civilizations of the Mediterranean and Southeastern Europe, making it rich in archaeological findin
This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).
The exact location lies at the Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) coordinates 633015.166477, 744493.046768, and at Latitude: 53.4494762 and Longitude : -7.5029786. [1] It sits in the townland of Adamstown within a National Monuments Zone, on the location of an ancient graveyard and near the remains of Kilbride church.
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.