Category:Ptolemy's Asian maps

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The Asian chapters of Ptolemy's Geography describe twelve regional maps:

1st: Bithynia et Pontus, Asia, Lycia, Pamphylia, Galatia, Cappadocia, Cilicia, and Armenia Minor (Modern Turkey)
2nd: Sarmatia Asiatica (Modern Russia, Ukraine, &c.)
3rd: Colchis, Iberia, Albania, and Armenia Major (Modern Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, &c.)
4th: Cyprus, Syria, Palestina, Arabia Petra and Deserta, Mesopotamia, and Babylonia (Modern Cyprus, Israel, Syria, Iraq, &c.)
5th: Assyria, Susiana, Media, Persidis, Hyrcania, Parthia, and Carmania Deserta (Modern Iran &c.)
6th: Arabia Felix and Carmania (Modern Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen, Oman, &c.)
7th: Scythia intra Imaum, Sogdiana, Bactriana, Margiana, and the Saca (Modern Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, &c.)
8th: Scythia extra Imaum and Serica (Modern China, Mongolia, &c.)
9th: Ariana, Drangiana, Gedrosia, Arachosia, Paropanisus (Modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, &c.)
10th: India intra Gangem (Modern India)
11th: India extra Gangem and the Sinae (Modern Southeast Asia &c.)
12th: Taprobana (Modern Sri Lanka)

Subcategories

This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.

A

Ptolemaic Arabia (2 C, 9 F)
Ptolemaic Armenia (3 C, 2 F)

C

E

Extra-Ptolemaic maps of Asia (5 C, 6 F)

I

Ptolemaic India (2 C, 15 F)
Ptolemaic Iran (5 C, 8 F)

M

Ptolemaic Mediterranean (16 C, 13 F)

P

S

Old maps of Ptolemaic Sarmatia (2 C, 8 F)
Ptolemaic Scythia (3 C, 2 F)

T

Ptolemaic Taprobana (3 C, 11 F)
Ptolemaic Turkey (3 C, 5 F)

Media in category "Ptolemy's Asian maps"

The following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total.

Erhard Etzlaub 1511 Sundial miniature map.png 1,827 × 2,423; 1.53 MB
Mercator and Etzlaub.png 378 × 381; 157 KB
Detail - Terrestrial Globe - from The Ambassadors - Holbein.jpg 265 × 299; 63 KB
Holbein globe terrestre.JPG 463 × 468; 50 KB
Map ambassadors.jpg 3,040 × 3,040; 3.56 MB
Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) p 117.jpg 2,000 × 1,455; 482 KB
Transasia trade routes 1stC CE gr2.png 800 × 480; 218 KB
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14595542950).jpg 3,416 × 1,971; 910 KB
Asia "Tabula nova utriusque Indiae," from Claudius Ptolemy, 'Geographicae Enarrationis' by Lorenz Fries 2.jpg 1,000 × 750; 95 KB
Asia from "Tabula nova utriusque Indiae," from Claudius Ptolemy, 'Geographicae Enarrationis' by Lorenz Fries.jpg 1,000 × 750; 110 KB
Development-1300-modern.jpg 1,632 × 3,780; 338 KB
EB 1911 Map Fig 4.png 2,354 × 1,190; 860 KB
Exacta totius Asiæ tabula - Kungliga Biblioteket - 10397528-thumb.png 10,270 × 7,824; 300.09 MB
Exacta totius Asiæ tabula - Kungliga Biblioteket - 10397528.tif 10,270 × 7,824, 2 pages; 459.82 MB
Gulf5..JPG 3,072 × 2,304; 3.13 MB
Ptolemy-Dulcert by Nordenskioeld.jpg 3,000 × 2,073; 774 KB
Sexta Asie Tabula, Claudius Ptolemaeus, 1482-1586 (24357876698).jpg 5,184 × 3,456; 7.21 MB
Transasia trade routes 1stC CE gr2 macrobia label corrected.png 800 × 480; 218 KB

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