List of ancient place names and geographical names

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This list of ancient place names and geographical names currently contains all the lemmas from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by the English lexicographer William Smith , published in 1854 . The Latin names are used as a basis for the sorting and page structure and a distinction is made between the letters I / J and U / V.

Legend

Surname
Latin name
Greek
Greek name
description
Type of geographical object (city, body of water, landscape, etc.)
today
current name, if known
Sources and References
ancient sources and references to other online reference works. Where:
RE
Article from Pauly's Realencyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies on Wikisource
PECS
Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1976 in the Perseus Project
Pleiades
Entries in the Pleiades database on ancient geography
Smith
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography in the Perseus Project

literature

In addition to the above linked reference works, the following literature was used:

Web links