Roman Empire Map

Roman Greece Map

Which parts of Greece were inside the Roman Empire, and when. Use the slider to step through the key dates.

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AD 1180about 591,029 km²Manuel I Komnenos dies; the empire has lost the Anatolian interior but holds the Balkans
Key

Territory

  • Roman Empire Territory at the chosen date
  • Eastern empire From AD 395, the part later called Byzantine
  • Western empire AD 395 and, as reconquests, AD 565

Layers

  • Province border Where provinces are shown, AD 200 outlines
  • Roman city Pleiades places attested in the period
  • Main Roman road Itiner-e, about AD 150 (not tied to the date)
  • Modern country border Today’s borders, for comparison

Borders are approximate and debated. Frontier zones were not hard lines, and client kingdoms are not counted unless the source map includes them. Outlines for 133 BC, 44 BC, AD 14 and the later dates are rebuilt from the province outlines of AD 200, so early frontiers look more settled than they were. 264 BC and the Byzantine dates follow modern regional boundaries and are coarser still. 753 BC is a symbolic dot on Rome.

Roman Greece at a glance

Greece was at least partly inside the Roman Empire at 11 of the 13 key dates on this map, between 133 BC and AD 1453. At AD 1180 the whole of Greece (131,353 km²) lay inside the outline. Today's Greece overlaps 5 Roman provinces or province groups on the AD 200 map.

The map above opens on AD 1180, when the most of Greece was inside.

  • 133 BCfirst key date inside
  • AD 1453last key date inside
  • 100%most inside, at AD 1180
  • 1,176Roman-period settlements in Pleiades

Roman provinces in Greece

Today's Greece overlaps 5 Roman provinces on the AD 200 map:

Greece inside the empire, date by date

DateShare of Greece insideArea inside (km²)
753 BCoutside0
264 BCoutside0
133 BC78%102,136
44 BC91%119,033
AD 1491%119,033
AD 11796%126,576
AD 21196%126,576
AD 39596%126,576
AD 47696%126,576
AD 56596%126,576
AD 1000100%131,353
AD 1180100%131,353
AD 145316%21,372

A country counts as inside only above 1% of its area or 500 km², because the ancient and modern coastlines do not match exactly. Borders are approximate and debated.

Roman cities in Greece

Pleiades lists 1,176 Roman-period settlements in Greece. The best attested include:

Names and attestation from Pleiades (CC BY 3.0).

See the Roman roads of Greece on romanroadsmap.com →

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