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Rome - Total Realism / Regions and settlements. Input appreciated
« on: October 23, 2016, 04:43:20 PM »
This weekend I've been working on the regions map. I've transferred the ones of the old map using some 100 corresponding points (islands, promontories, river mouths, confluences). That went well enough I think. However, for settlement locations, I much prefer to rely on coordinates. I've found coordinates for most of them, but some I have not been able to trace. In a couple of other cases, the names were ambiguous. It would help me a lot of someone with more historical knowledge than I have could provide the coordinates of the following places. If available, coordinates of the nearest modern town are often sufficient.
Dahaea Igdi
Chorasmia Dzanbas
Massagetia Chiric
Saka-Issedonia Chigu
Taklamakan Kasia
Epirus Taulantia
Albania Gatara
Chattia Amisia
Siracena Uspe
Sarmatia Roxanace
Scandiae Thule (I don't think anyone ever thought this was a settlement?)
Venedia Amadoca
Cimbria Treva
Aestia Drusa
Olbiana Olbia (there's several Olbias in the ancient world, which one is this?)
Aegyptus-Ptolemais Ptolemais (there's no less than 3 settlements with that name in Egypt)
Hadramaut Ubar (this one seems to be rather speculative, but it could be near Shisr in Oman?)
Caledonia Devana
For the following I have coordinates but these places are speculative, being approximate, contested and/or having multiple contenders)
Teutonia Laciburgium
Suebia Luppia
Rugia Rugium
Lugia Calisia
Budinia Gelonus
Hyrcania Zadracarta
Cotinia Asanca
Odrysia Orestia
Borysthenes Gerrhos
I also note most names have been latinized. I don't know if that was a conscious decision, but IMHO, given the timeframe it seems to make more sense to use the greek names from which they were derived.
That is not all. Quite a few settlements simply are not in the position the old map showed them to be and in some cases are in fact outside of the region they're supposedly in. I don't really want to mess with the historical decisions about borders, but in most cases coordinates do not lie. Border corrections will be needed.
Dahaea Igdi
Chorasmia Dzanbas
Massagetia Chiric
Saka-Issedonia Chigu
Taklamakan Kasia
Epirus Taulantia
Albania Gatara
Chattia Amisia
Siracena Uspe
Sarmatia Roxanace
Scandiae Thule (I don't think anyone ever thought this was a settlement?)
Venedia Amadoca
Cimbria Treva
Aestia Drusa
Olbiana Olbia (there's several Olbias in the ancient world, which one is this?)
Aegyptus-Ptolemais Ptolemais (there's no less than 3 settlements with that name in Egypt)
Hadramaut Ubar (this one seems to be rather speculative, but it could be near Shisr in Oman?)
Caledonia Devana
For the following I have coordinates but these places are speculative, being approximate, contested and/or having multiple contenders)
Teutonia Laciburgium
Suebia Luppia
Rugia Rugium
Lugia Calisia
Budinia Gelonus
Hyrcania Zadracarta
Cotinia Asanca
Odrysia Orestia
Borysthenes Gerrhos
I also note most names have been latinized. I don't know if that was a conscious decision, but IMHO, given the timeframe it seems to make more sense to use the greek names from which they were derived.
That is not all. Quite a few settlements simply are not in the position the old map showed them to be and in some cases are in fact outside of the region they're supposedly in. I don't really want to mess with the historical decisions about borders, but in most cases coordinates do not lie. Border corrections will be needed.