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The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert. Richard JA Talbert (born 1947 is a contemporary British-American ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization (pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity 640 AD. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Events and trends Carthage conquers Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. Events By Place Europe Tulga succeeds his father Suinthila as king of the Visigoths. The atlas was published by Princeton University press, copyright 2000. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. The book was the winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities.

Contents

Overview

The main (atlas) volume contains 102 color topographic maps, covering territory from the British Isles and the Azores and eastward to Afghanistan and western China. The British Isles (Irish variously Na hOileáin Bhriotanacha, Oileáin Iarthair Eorpa, Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór; Ellanyn Goaldagh Eileanan The Azores ( Açores ɐˈsoɾɨʃ or) is a Portuguese Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1500 km (950  mi) from Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National The size of the volume is 33 x 48 cm. A 45 page gazeteer is also included in the atlas volume. A gazetteer is a geographical Dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (see Toponomy) used in conjunction The atlas is accompanied by a map-by-map directory on CD-ROM, in PDF format, including a search index. The map-by-map directory is also available in print as a two-volume, 1,500 page edition.

According to the editor, the purpose of each map is to offer an up-to-date presentation of the important physical and covered features of the area, using all available literal, epigraphic, and archaeological data.

Most of the maps are of the scale 1:1,000,000 or 1:500,000. However, the environs of the three greater centers (Athens, Rome, Byzantium-Constantinople) are presented in 1:150,000. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 This article is about the city See also Byzantine Empire. Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιον Latin: la BYZANTIVM Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS Some remote regions, where Greeks and Romans mostly explored and traded rather than settled (i. e. Baltic, Arabia, East Africa, India, Sri Lanka), are of the scale 1:5,000,000. The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-jazīra al-ʻarabīya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al-ʻarab) East Africa is the Easternmost Region of the African Continent. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island Due to the nature of the base maps used for the background and time–cost restrictions, elevation lines (contours) were left in feet except for the 1:150,000 maps where they are in meters. A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit The projection of the maps is Lambert Conformal Conic. A map projection is any method of representing the Surface of a sphere or other shape on a plane. A Lambert conformal conic projection ( LCC) is a conic Map projection, which is often used for Aeronautical charts In essence the projection Again due to time and cost restrictions, geo-referencing of the maps was left as a future separate project. To georeference something means to define its existence in physical space.

Effort was spent to show the physical landscape in its ancient rather than modern aspect. As expected, this task often met insurmountable difficulties, due to the lack of data. In those cases, at least an effort was made to to eliminate known modern features and to restore the affected landscapes.

The atlas' production involved a project of 12 years' duration and a team of over 200 scholars, The effort was funded by $4. 5 million in federal and private donations. It provides an up-to-date reference for ancient geography, superseding William Smith's work, An historical atlas of ancient geography, biblical and classical (London: John Murray, 1872-1874). Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents

An ongoing wiki-like on-line large scale collaboration for maintaining and diversifying the Barrington Atlas data-set is carried on by the Pleiades Project.

Period coverage

The time period covered is roughly from 1,000 BC up to c. AD 640, categorized as following:

All eras are covered in every map (i. The archaic period in Greece ( 750 BC 480 BC) is a period of Ancient Greek history Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural History centered on the Mediterranean This article focuses on the historical aspects of the Hellenistic age for the cultural aspects see Hellenistic civilisation. The Principate is the first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Caesar Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century, Late Antiquity (c 300-600 is a Periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in e. there are not separate maps for different periods of the same region).

Naming conventions

The Latin titles given to the regional categories and to the individual maps (see below) are no more than generalized identifications. E. g. Internum Mare (literally, "Internal Sea") is the region around Mediterranean Sea.

Inside maps, ancient names are underlined with specific colors, when they are applicable only to a specific era. Where modern names are used, they are printed in different (sans-serif) font. For the physical features, standard Latin descriptive terms are usually used (e. g. Lacus for Lake, Mons for Mountain). Explanations for these terms are given in the Map Key. When there is doubt whether the name correctly applies to a feature or area, it is followed by a question mark. When only the approximate location is known, the name is italicized.

Atlas Volume contents

Map-by-map Directory contents

The two volumes (and the CD-ROM) contain:

The CD-ROM also contains the gazeteer in PDF format and an installer of the version 4 of Adobe Acrobat Reader with Search for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee əˈdoʊbiː ( is an American Computer software company headquartered in San Jose California Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently However, on Windows systems with the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader already installed, installation of the version 4 might lead to incompatibility problems. Besides, it is not needed since the latest Acrobat Reader versions don't need the Search plugin (one can use menu Edit, Search, then click on "Use Advanced Search Options").

Current editions

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