Maps of Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and Neighboring Lands

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The following selected public domain maps are from The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography by Samuel Butler, Ernest Rhys, editor (Suffolk, 1907, repr. 1908), made available by Project Gutenberg. The complete Atlas may be downloaded from that site.

The following selected public domain maps are from the Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd (New York, 1911), made available by The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. The complete Atlas may be downloaded from that site. Available at the same site is a later, extended, composite version of Shepherd's Atlas drawn from editions published in 1923 and 1926. All maps below are from the 1911 edition unless otherwise indicated.

Greece, Assyria, the Levant, Iran

Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa (Physical Map)
Mycenaean Greece and the Orient about 1450 B.C., 1926 edition.
The Assyrian Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean, 850-625 B.C., 1929 edition.
The Assyrian Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean, 750-625 B.C., 1926 edition.
Reference Map of Ancient Israel and Palestine, 1926 edition.
The Oriental Empires about 600 B.C., 1923 edition.
The Persian Empire about 500 B.C., 1923 edition.

Greek and Phoenician Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin about 500 B.C., 1929 edition.
Alexander's Empire, 336-323 B.C. (Caspian and West), 1929 edition.
Alexander's Empire, 336-323 B.C. (Caspian and East), 1929 edition.
Seleucid Kingdoms about 301 B.C., 1929 edition.
Seleucid Kingdoms about 200 B.C., 1929 edition.

Roman Republic and Empire

Reference Map of Asia Minor under the Greeks and Romans, 1929 edition.
Reference Map of Asia Minor under the Greeks and Romans, 1923 edition.
The Growth of Roman Power in Asia Minor
The Territorial Expansion of Rome

East Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire)

The Roman Empire about 395
The Roman and Hunnic Empires about 450
The Germanic Kingdoms and the East Roman Empire in 486
Europe and the East Roman Empire, 533-600

Asia Minor, 8-15th Centuries

The Caliphate in 750
The Byzantine Empire and the Caliphate about 814
Europe and the Byzantine Empire about 1000
Europe and the Mediterranean Lands about 1097
Asia Minor and the Crusader States in Syria, about 1140
Europe and the Mediterranean Lands about 1190, 1926 edition.
The Mediterranean Lands after 1204
The Byzantine Empire, 1265-1355
The Mongol Dominions, 1300-1405
The Ottoman Empire, 1451-1481

Economic Map of the Ancient World, 1929 edition
Medieval Commerce, Europe
Medieval Commerce, Asia

The following selected public domain maps are from Atlas Antiquus by Heinrich Kiepert (Berlin, 1869, reprinted numerous times), made available by E. Gottwein. Individual plates from the complete Atlas may be downloaded from that site.

Antiquity

World as Known to the Ancients and Ptolemy's World
Empires of Iran and Macedonia

Roman Africa

Northwestern Africa:
  Mauretania Tingitana
  Mauretania Caesariensis
  Numidia

North Central Africa:
Tripolitana
Libya

Northeastern Africa:
  Northern Egypt
  Central Egypt--Heptanomis
  Central Egypt--Thebais
  Southern Egypt and Ethiopia

Roman Asia Minor, the Caucasus, and Neighboring Lands

Roman Asia Minor and Environs:

  Eastern Thrace
  Mysia
  Ionia
  Aeolia
  Lydia

  Caria
  Doria
  Lycia
  Pamphylia
  Pisidia

  Phrygia
  Lycaonia
  Galatia
  Bithynia
  Paphlagonia
  Pontus

  Greater Cappadocia
  Cappadocia
  Commagene
  Armenia and Neighbors
  Armenia and Media Atropatene

  Mesopotamia
  Cilicia
  Syria
  Phoenicia
  Palestine

The following Russian maps of Historical Armenia, made by S.T. Eremyan, appear in Atlas Armianskoi SSR (Erevan-Moscow, 1961) pp. 102-106. These and several additional maps were also issued as a separate pamphlet.

Historical Armenia (in Russian)

The Armenian Highlands (Physical Map)
Urartu and Neighboring Countries, 8-7th Centuries B.C.E.
Armenia in the Hellenistic Period, 3rd-1st Centuries B.C.E.

Armenia in the 1st-4th Centuries C.E.
Armenia in the 1st-4th Centuries, the Caspian Area
Armenia in the 5-7th Centuries

Armenia at the Beginning of the 11th Century
Armenia and Neighboring Countries at the Beginning of the 13th Century
Western Armenia and Cilicia at the Beginning of the 13th Century
Armenia on the Eve of the Mongol Conquest

The following Armenian maps of Historical Armenia, made by S.T. Eremyan, appear in the first twelve volumes of Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia], (Erevan, 1971 - 1986). All maps are the work of Eremyan unless otherwise indicated. Volume and page information for these maps.

Historical Armenia and Neighboring Areas (in Armenian)

The Armenian Highlands and Neighboring Lands in the Bronze Age (E'.V. Xanzadyan, cartographer)
Urartu (M. A. Katvalyan, cartographer)
Armenia Minor/Lesser Armenia (P'ok'r Hayk') 3rd Century B.C. E.-4th Century C.E. (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
The Kingdom of Tsop'k'-Commagene (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Artaxiad (Artashesian) Kingdom in the 1st Century B.C.E.

Arsacid (Arshakuni) Kingdom, 298-387
Arsacid (Arshakuni) Kingdom, 298-387 Western Border
Marzpan Armenia and Neighboring Countries (387-628) (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Marzpan Armenia and Neighboring Countries (387-628) Western Border. (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Greater Armenia according to the Ashxarats'oyts' [7th century Armenian geographical work]
Greater Armenia according to the Ashxarats'oyts' Western Border

Bagratid Kingdom (Late 9th-mid 10th Centuries)
The Kingdom of Kars and the Curopalate of Tayk' (10-11th Centuries)
Kyurikyan (Kiwrikean) Kingdom (972-1118)
Zak'arid Armenia at the Beginning of the 13th Century

Cilician Armenian State (1080-1375) (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Cilician Armenian State, the Western Lands (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)

Adiabene
Aghdznik'
Aghuank' (Aghuania, Atrpatakan) 387-706
Arts'ax
Ayrarat
Gugark'
P'aytakaran (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Upper Armenia Bardzr Hayk'

Siwnik' (Syunik')/Sisakan (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
The Principality of Siwnik' (821-987) and the Kingdom of Siwnik' (987-1170) (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Tayk'
Tsop'k' (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)
Turuberan
Vaspurakan
The Kingdom of Vaspurakan (908-1021)

Alexander's Realm
The Parthian Kingdom (248 B.C.E.-277 C.E.)
Ptolemy's Tabula III Asiae
Ptolemy's Data Superimposed on an Accurate Map of Asia Minor
Ptolemy's Data Superimposed, the Western Lands
Sasanian State (3-7th Centuries) (B. H. Harut'yunyan, cartographer)

The following maps of Historical Armenia, made by C. Toumanoff, accompany his book Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Georgetown, 1963), and his article "Armenia and Georgia" [chapter XIV in The Cambridge Medieval History vol. IV, The Byzantine Empire part I (Cambridge, 1966)]. These maps are not public domain and are presented here solely for non-commercial educational/research purposes.

Historical Armenia and Iberia/Georgia

Armenian Principalities and Iberian Lands in the 1st-6th Centuries
Armenian Provinces and Iberian Duchies in the 1st-6th Centuries
The Armeno-Georgian Marchlands
Armenia in the 8th-11th Centuries
Armenia in the 12th-15th Centuries

The following maps of Historical Iran and its neighbors appear in The Cambridge Ancient History, volumes: III. The Assyrian Empire and IV. The Persian Empire (Cambridge, 1960), VI. Macedon 401-301 B.C. (1953), VII. Hellenistic Monarchies and the Rise of Rome (1954), IX. The Roman Republic 133-44 B.C. (1962), The Cambridge History of Iran, The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods volumes 3(1) and 3(2) (1983). These maps are not public domain and are presented here solely for non-commercial educational/research purposes.

Historical Iran and Neighboring Areas

Assyrian Empire
Urartu
Scythians and Northern Nomads
Achaemenid Satrapies at the Time of Darius
Route of Xenophon's Ten Thousand, ca. 401 B.C.

Hellenistic Kingdoms, ca. 275 B.C.
Hellenistic Asia
Parthian Empire
Iranians in Asia Minor
Armenia at the Time of the Parthian Empire
Asia Minor and Syria in 133 B.C.

Pompey's Settlement of the East
Parthian Empire in 51 B.C.
Colchis and Iberia (Georgia)
Western Regions of the Sasanian Empire
Provinces of the Early Sasanian Empire
Historical Map of Central Asia
Silk Road from China to the Roman Orient

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