Maps Needed

[Harry Tuttle]

I'm looking for some decent maps that incorporate the Seleucid empire and its various cities circa 220 - 200 BC. Also, I am looking for maps of Pre-Roman Britain with major settlements, Germania 200 BCish, Pannonia 200 BCish, and anything out on the Russian plains 200 BCish that might be a population center.

If you know of any online, please let me know.

[McMonkey]

Maps of re-Roman Britain are not easy to find on Google. Lots of maps with the names of Celtic tribes and the vague area they lived in. Also lots of maps of Roman Britain.

I guess hill forts (such as Maiden Castle) could be considered major settlements so searchingfor Celtic hill forts may be a good way of deciding where to base cities.

http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/11894/2002997278929711552_rs.jpg

Will see what I can find in my books and scan but I think it will probably be similar to what is avalable online!

[Harry Tuttle]

Thank you very much You're right, it is very hard to find Pre-Roman maps. Pain in the rear.

I did find a map of Germany, but I think it includes a number of settlements that are derived from Ptolemy's coordinates, which evidently have been proven to be incorrect on a number of occasions. One of them, which is supposed to be in modern day Poland, was found to have existed in Slovakia. Calisia I believe.

[fairline]

I used to have a link to an excellent site showing the position of all Celtic tribes in Britain. I'll try and locate it...

[Harry Tuttle]

Dumb question. I don't suppose some enterprising person went and mapped all the ancient cities in Europe? It just seems rather odd to have to piece all this together this day and age.

[McMonkey]

My solution for Celtic and Germanic cities in Aeterna Civitas was to use the location of Roman colonies and rename them as the local tribe prior to the arrival of the Romans. While this is not 100% accurate it does mean the Roman cities appear in the right place when captured/renamed and the local tribes are in about the right place. I used a map of the Roman Empire and used Wikipedia to find out the tribe.

P.S. I linked the large map so that the screen appears normal size. The second map went a bit wobbly so I removed it!

Will have a look for some more maps later

[Harry Tuttle]

I was thinking of adding the tribes in like that, but I want the scenario to be open ended so that the player has to develop their own conquered land. The player will have the option of going the historic route, but really the game will form around the actions the player will take.

Good idea on the map. The big one was to big even for my widescreen monitor.

[fairline]

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
Dumb question. I don't suppose some enterprising person went and mapped all the ancient cities in Europe? It just seems rather odd to have to piece all this together this day and age.

There was a Greco-Roman called ptolemaeus who mapped the Roman world. His maps look pretty strange to modern eyes, but IIRC they included anotations about tribal regions.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by fairline


There was a Greco-Roman called ptolemaeus who mapped the Roman world. His maps look pretty strange to modern eyes, but IIRC they included anotations about tribal regions.

That's actually who I was talking about in Post #3. He gave long/lat coordinates for the northernly cities, but upon modern day inspection his map is not that accurate. He did seem to get most of the place names though. Here's a great site from some guy interpreting Ptolemaeus' work.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/10/limited.html