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Italia (peninsula): Roman province map

A merged unit on the source map, combining several provinces.

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AD 117about 4,880,924 km²The empire at its greatest extent, after Trajan's eastern conquests; Trajan dies and Hadrian succeeds. Ruler: Trajan, then Hadrian.
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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.

Italia (peninsula) at a glance

This unit combines several provinces. Italy was not a province. AWMC's linework splits it into the Augustan regions, merged here as Italia south of the Po plain. Roman control of the peninsula was complete by 272 BC; Odoacer from 476; Justinian's reconquest was complete by 554. The dates and capital below are for the main province in the unit.

  • Romacapital
  • 272 BCfirst Roman
  • AD 476no longer Roman
  • 132,308 km²area on the AD 200 map

Italia (peninsula) is a single unit on the source map that joins several provinces. Its main province was Roman from 272 BC to AD 476 and from AD 554, with its capital at Roma. On the AD 200 map it covers about 132,308 km², spread across Italy (99%), San Marino (under 0.1%) and Vatican City (under 0.1%) today. It is inside the empire on the map at 133 BC, 44 BC, AD 14, AD 117, AD 211, AD 395 and AD 565.

Dates: Wikipedia: Roman Italy; Gothic War (535 to 554). The outline is the Ancient World Mapping Center province map of AD 200, so earlier and later shapes of the province may have differed.

Which modern countries does Italia (peninsula) cover?

CountryShare of the provinceArea (km²)
Roman Italy99%131,125
San Marinounder 0.1%54
Vatican Cityunder 0.1%0

Italia (peninsula) on the key dates

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