Rome and Carthage prior to the First Punic War, 264 B.C.

Map of the western Mediterranean Sea in 264 BC. prior to the First Punic War, Rome is shown in red, Carthage in gray, and Syracuse in green.

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The Byzantine Empire on the death of Emperor Basil II in 1025.

The Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rûm before the Crusades in 1095. Map made in 2008.

Byzantine Empire in purple, c.1180, at the end of the Komnenian period.

Byzantine Empire c.1180, at the end of the Komnenian period.

Map of the partition of the Byzantine Empire following the Fourth Crusade, c. 1204.

The Byzantine Empire c. 1263.

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* Dark Green: Ottoman domain by 1300's, dotted line indicates conquests up...

Western and Eastern Roman Empires circa 395

This map shows the breakdown of the Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth centuries...