File:Achaemenid Empire 500 BC.png

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A map of the Achaemenid Empire around 500 BC featuring ancient regions, settlements and Satrapies.

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English: A map of the Achaemenid Empire around 500 BC featuring ancient regions, settlements and Satrapies.

This map assembles information from the Historischer Schul-Atlas zur alten, mittleren und neueren Geschichte by Heinrich Kiepert and Carl Wolff from 1879 as accessed from GEI Digital, the 1923 edition of Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd as accessed from the Perry-Castañeda Library's online map collection and Livius.org's article on the Satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire according to Herodotus.

The graphics were assembled in QGIS and processed in Adobe Illustrator. Made with Natural Earth coastal, river and lake data. All data is projected in the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.
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current07:01, 12 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 07:01, 12 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (811 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Changed terminology, added Cyropolis
06:05, 9 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 06:05, 9 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (811 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Added more cities
21:52, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 21:52, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (807 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Removed anachronistic labels, removed Thrace and Macedonia as Satrapies
20:44, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 20:44, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (813 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Fixed north eastern border, tweaked satrapies
18:55, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 18:55, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (794 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Tweaked borders and satraps
15:20, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 15:20, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (789 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Fixed Indian border again, added cities in Greece
07:02, 8 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 07:02, 8 March 20213,070 × 1,637 (785 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Stronger color, capitals, more cities, added Indian territories beyond the Indus
14:26, 7 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 14:26, 7 March 20212,923 × 1,637 (729 KB)Cattette (talk | contribs)Uploaded own work with UploadWizard

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