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A referenced map of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent.
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"Judea", not "Palestine".
Palestine was the name the Romans gave that same territory after expelling jews from there for rebelling against the empire.
As it should be.
The Roman Empire reached its greatest extent during the reign of Trajan (98-117 CE). The Romans only changed the name of Judaea to Syria Palestina (not just “Palestine”) in 136 CE, under Hadrian’s rule and after the Judaean/Jewish Bar Kochba revolt (132-136 CE) was defeated.
As it should be.
What do you mean?
If this map is one of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent, then that means that it’s depicting the state of affairs at a time somewhen during Trajan’s reign, i.e. between 98 CE to 117 CE.
During that time, the province west of Arabia Petraea, north-east of Egypt (Aegyptus) and south of Syria was called Judaea.
The name of the Roman province of Judaea was only changed to Syria Palestrina in 136 CE, 19 years after Trajan died.
As such, the correct name for the province in this map is Judaea, not Syria Palestina.
They changed the name later bro. 🤡
Correct.
Libya travelled west as centuries passed by
Libya was essentially just the name the egyptians used for the people west of them.
global warming
Sarumata has never been that high north. Horses don't fare well in freezing swamps.
Slavs: Exist
Romans: Yeah, lump em in there with Sarmatia!
There were no Slavs in Europe at that time. Sarmatians are not Slavs
People speaking proto-Slavic, the second divergent branch from Balto-Slavic (the other one being Baltic), is at the most estimated to have developed around the 2nd millennium BCE in what is Central-Eastern Europe.
And that's what I'm saying. Slavs have been in Central Eastern Europe for centuries before the Migration Era, yet they're never shown on maps, and everything East of fucking Rome is labeled Sarmatia, as innacurate as it is lol.
They don’t appear on any maps because Slavs came in Europe from Asia starting with 6 Century AD
I genuinely believe you have to be trolling, but just in case you aren't, no. Slavs didn't come from Asia. They've inhabited Polesia for centuries.
I had to go look up what the fuck Albania was doing over there and found out about Caucasian Albania, which while interesting also feels like an incredible shit post that pre Azerbaijan "Albanian's" lived there
If we're using the contemporary names then I believe Mare Nostrum ("Our Sea") would be more accurate than Mediterraneum Mare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Nostrum#Original_usage