The Haimos Peninsula, from Claudius Ptolemy ‘Geography / Geographia’
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Map title
The Haimos Peninsula, from Claudius Ptolemy ‘Geography / Geographia’
Type
Type
Historical.
Type
Sketch.
Description
Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia (c. AD 160), transcribed by Ioannes Skoutariotes (Florence 1454). The map depicts the eastern part of the Haimos Peninsula (later known as the Balkan Peninsula): from the North Aegean (the islands of Thasos and the Thracian Sporades) and the Propontis / Sea of Marmara to the Danube Delta (the six Provinces of the Roman Dioecesis Thraciae), and further North: areas of todays’ Romania, Moldova and the Ukraine.
Map series
ΕΜΘ χ.23 / GBS map 23
Place of publication
Florence
Year of publication
1454
Languages
Greek
Key words
Aegean, Northern.
Ainos / Enez.
Balkans.
Black Sea, west coast.
Byzantion, city-state.
Cartography.
Claudius Ptolemaeus / Ptolemy.
Danube / Ister.
Danube Delta.
Danube, Lower Danube.
Dardanelles / Hellespont.
Dniester, river.
Eastern Macedonia.
Eastern Thrace / European Turkey.
Europa, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Euxine Pontus / Black Sea.
Evros, river / Hebrus, river.
Florence.
Haimimontus, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Haimos / Balkan / Stara Planina, mountain.
Imbros / Imvros / Gökçeada.
Kadıköy / Chalcedon.
Late Antiquity.
Madytos / Eceabat.
Map.
Marmara Islands.
Maroneia.
Moldavia.
Northern Thrace / Southern Bulgaria.
Perinthos / Herakleia.
Propontis / Sea of Marmara.
Renaissance.
Rhodopa, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Roman Empire, East.
Roman period, Imperial age.
Thasos, island.
Thrace.
Thracia, province, Dioecesis Thraciae.
Thracian peninsula / Gallipoli peninsula.
Thracian Sporades, islands.
Ukraine.
Vize / Vizye / Bizye.
Wallachia.