Ancient Toponymy

This section of the site will contain as many as possible place-names from the classical sources, like Ptolemy (Ptol.), Strabo (Strab.), Pliny (Plin.), and the guide-books of the late antiquity. Other minor sources are Herodotus (Her.), Titus Livius (Liv.), Stephanus of Byzantium (Steph. Byz.), Tacitus (Tac.), Pomponius Mela (Mel.), etc.

The place-names are presented in their best attested, latinized form. The single page will include a short description of the place, the variants of the name, and a section on the etymology, that is opened to any comments, suggestions etc.

For better navigation, the place-names are grouped in some links pages (see below), corresponding more or less to the provinces of the Roman Empire or their major subdivisions. The links will be active when the single pages will be inserted.

Contents

Hispania

• Baetica
• Lusitania
• Tarraconensis

Gallia

• Narbonensis
• Aquitania
• Lugdunensis
• Belgica

British Isles

• Britannia
• Hibernia

Italia

• Gallia Transpadana
• Liguria
• Gallia Cispadana
• Etruria (73 entries) inserted August 22, 2002
• Latium (105 entries) inserted September 15, 2002
• Campania (61 entries) inserted October 12, 2002
• Lucania (37 entries) inserted January 9, 2003
• Bruttium (53 entries) inserted February 23, 2003
• Peucetia et Calabria (49 entries) inserted November 30, 2002
• Hirpinia et Daunia (49 entries) inserted November 12, 2002
• Samnium (87 entries) inserted May 20, 2002
• Picenum (34 entries) inserted June 8, 2002
• Umbria (53 entries) inserted July 11, 2002
• Venetia

Italian Isles

• Sardinia
• Corsica
• Sicilia

Danube Frontier

• Raetia
• Noricum
• Pannonia
• Illyria

Eastern Europe

• Moesia
• Dacia
• Thracia

Graecia

• Macedonia

Northern Europe

• Germania
• Sarmatia
• Scytia

by Antonio Sciarretta
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