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Following World War II, Greece endured a bitter civil war that ended a couple months before this map was published in December 1949. The Classical Lands of the Mediterranean map celebrates the magnificent history of the Greek, Roman, and Phoenician civilizations with informative inset maps and an abundance of notes about historical and mythological sites. The 1949 Classical Lands of the Mediterranean:
• Inset maps of Ancient Athens and Ancient Rome
• Inset maps and text about the worlds of Homer, Herodotus, and Strabo
• An abundance of notes about historical and mythological sites
• Map of the Greco-Roman world showing Phoenician and Greek settlements and the empires of Alexander the Great and Rome at the time of Trajan
• Classical equivalents showing the names of Greek and Roman gods, goddesses, and legendary figures
• Principal railways, roads, canals, airports, ruins, and battle sites
• Geographical equivalents
Coverage Area: Italy, Greece, Corsica, Albania, Tunisia, northwestern Turkey, western Yugoslavia
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