Maps Flashcards
~ 100 BC
Scythia
Hispania Baetica
One of three Imperial Roman provinces in Hispania (modern Iberia). Hispania Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Hispania Tarraconensis. Baetica was part of Al-Andalus under the Moors in the 8th century and approximately corresponds to modern Andalucia. Its capital was Corduba
Calabria
Latium
Latium (Latin: Lătĭŭm, Italian: Lazio) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire. Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil on which resided the tribe of the Latins. It was located on the left bank (east and south) of the Tiber river, extending northward to the Anio river (a left-bank tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus (Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory.
The right bank of the Tiber was occupied by the Etruscan city of Veii, and the other borders were occupied by Italic tribes. Subsequently Rome defeated Veii and then its Italic neighbors, expanding Latium to the Apennine Mountains in the northeast and to the opposite end of the marsh in the southeast. The modern descendant, the Italian Regione of Lazio, also called Latium in Latin, and occasionally in modern English, is somewhat larger still, but not as much as double the original Latium.
Etruria
Etruria was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria.
Usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia.
Gaul (Latin: Gallia)
Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine.
Danube
The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent’s second longest after the Volga. Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river passes through or acts as part of the borders of ten countries.
Tiber
The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains and flowing 406 kilometres (252 mi) through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea. The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks. The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia.
Dacia
In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land inhabited by the Dacians—a branch of the Thracians north of the Haemus range.
Illyricum
The Roman province of Illyricum replaced most of the region of Illyria. It stretched from the Drilon river in modern north Albania to Istria (Croatia) in the west and to the Sava river (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in the north. The regions which it included changed through the centuries though a great part of ancient Illyria remained part of Illyricum as a province while south Illyria became Epirus Nova, part of Roman Macedonia.
Rhine
The Rhine is a river that flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at about 1,233 km (766 mi). The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire.
