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Prefer the PDF maps when available. They offer cleaner images, they are searchable through your browser’s “find” function, and the text stays clear when you zoom in. But they are slightly larger files and take a bit longer to download.
This map of Ancient Greece displays cities, settlements, places of interest, and centers of influence from different historical eras in the area around the modern country.
The PDF map (286 KB) offers clear text on magnification, and is searchable with your browser’s “find” function.
Ancient Greece In Europe, Asia, and Africa
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Map of Ancient Greek places beyond the narrow vicinity of the modern state.
This map of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia includes coastal colonies of the Archaic Era (700 – 480 BCE) in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, as well as places deep into Asia and Africa from Greek civilization’s widest spread of the Hellenistic Era (323 – 146 BCE). Click on each rectangle to see a larger view of the corresponding area (note: gray areas contain no Ancient Greek places of interest and are not active on this map).
Most Influential Places
The maps above include the most influential places of ancient Greece from Stone Age to the Roman Era.
Minimal Map PDF (zoom/search), Physical Map PDF (zoom/search).
Regions of Ancient Greece and Rome
Map showing the regions of Greece and Rome. These pdf files are not searchable.
Ancient Greek Places in Satellite View (Legacy)
| Multiple eras | Stone Age | Bronze Age | Dark/Archaic Age | Classical Age | Hellenistic Age | Late Hellenistic / Roman |
| 8000 – 3000 BCE | 3000 – 1000 BCE | 1000 – 480 BCE | 480 – 323 BCE | 323 – 146 BCE | 146BCE+ | |
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Click on each placemark on Google Maps see the name of the place and more information about the ancient Greek place you clicked on.
This interactive map utilizes Google Maps which offers considerable landscape accuracy, but with major limitations (i.e. it does not display place names unless clicked). Consequently, This map is no longer updated.
Click here to see Ancient Greek places on Google Earth. This interface is considerably slower, but offers oblique views of the satellite images, and reveals the place names. This map is no longer updated.
Accuracy of Placemarks
In the Google Maps and Earth versions above, the major and minor cities are classified based on the certainty of location. You will find these designations in the pop-up window after clicking on each map place.
Accurate Placemarks: If neither “approximate” nor “general” appear in the pop-up window, the placemark indicates the exact location on the map of the ancient Greek place. Most often, the ruins of the place are visible in satellite view under or near the placemark after zooming in. By “accurate” is meant “as accurately as possible”. While the placemark is located on the ancient excavations, the excavated ruins could be a small part of the actual ancient location that might have relocated several times in the area during the past 4 millennia.
“Approximate Location” The placemark is on the most commonly accepted location based on at least three verified sources, but no ruins or other visual evidence can be seen on the map. They should be considered accurate within the vicinity of the pin on the map.
“General Location” means that the particular ancient Greek place cannot be pinpointed specifically, but instead it spans the general area around the placemark. Most often in this case a modern city covers the ancient site.
“Probable Location” means that the exact location of a known place could not be accurately pinpointed on the map. The placemark is placed on the most likely location based on limited unverified sources.
While satellite imagery offers extraordinary accuracy of the contemporary topography and most modern maps reflect this accuracy, the reader should be cautioned that ancient landscape, and especially the coastline might have been considerably different than today. Good examples of this fact are the locations of Troy, Miletos, and Thermopylae. The ancient places existed next to the coast or a large harbor while today they appear landlocked. In several such cases, I have drawn the ancient coastline after considerable research, and I hope to add more in the future.
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