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