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English: A map of the Achaemenid Empire around 500 BC featuring ancient regions, settlements and Satrapies.

This map assembles information from the Historischer Schul-Atlas zur alten, mittleren und neueren Geschichte by Heinrich Kiepert and Carl Wolff from 1879 as accessed from GEI Digital, the 1923 edition of Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd as accessed from the Perry-Castañeda Library's online map collection and Livius.org's article on the Satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire according to Herodotus.

The graphics were assembled in QGIS and processed in Adobe Illustrator. Made with Natural Earth coastal, river and lake data. All data is projected in the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.
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A map of the Achaemenid Empire around 500 BC featuring ancient regions, settlements and Satrapies.

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current07:01, 12 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 07:01, 12 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (811 KB)CattetteChanged terminology, added Cyropolis
06:05, 9 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 06:05, 9 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (811 KB)CattetteAdded more cities
21:52, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:52, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (807 KB)CattetteRemoved anachronistic labels, removed Thrace and Macedonia as Satrapies
20:44, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 20:44, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (813 KB)CattetteFixed north eastern border, tweaked satrapies
18:55, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 18:55, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (794 KB)CattetteTweaked borders and satraps
15:20, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 15:20, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (789 KB)CattetteFixed Indian border again, added cities in Greece
07:02, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 07:02, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (785 KB)CattetteStronger color, capitals, more cities, added Indian territories beyond the Indus
14:26, 7 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 14:26, 7 March 20212,923 × 1,637 (729 KB)CattetteUploaded own work with UploadWizard
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