List of ancient place names and geographical names / An
| Latin name |
Greek name |
description | today | Sources and References | location
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anabura | Smith ; | ||||
| Anacaea | Smith ; | ||||
| Anactorium | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaea , Annaea | Ἄνναια (Annaia), Ἀναία (Anaia) | City in the Roman province of Asia on the Turkish Aegean coast | Smith ; | ||
| Anagnia | Ἀνάγνειαι (Anagneiai) | The capital of hernics in Lazio | Anagni in the Italian province of Frosinone | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Anagyrus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaitica | Smith ; | ||||
| Anamari | Smith ; | ||||
| Anamis | Smith ; | ||||
| Ananes | Ἄνανες (Ananes) | Celtic tribe of Gallia cisalpina | Polybios 2.17, 2.32; Smith ; | ||
| Anao Portus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaphe | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaphlystus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anapus | Anapo | Smith ; | |||
| Anarei Montes | Smith ; | ||||
| Anariacae | Smith ; | ||||
| Anartes | Celtic or Dacian tribe in Pannonia , north of the Danube | Hungary or Romania | Smith ; | ||
| Anas | Ἄνας (Anas) | Guadiana river in Spain | Smith ; | ||
| Anastasis | ancient place in Lokris | Hierocles: Synekdemos ; | |||
| Anatho | Smith ; | ||||
| Anatis | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaua | Smith ; | ||||
| Anaunia | Valley in the Eastern Alps | ||||
| Anaurus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anazarbus , Justinianopolis, Caesarea in Cilicia, Caesarea ad Anazarbum | Ἀνάζαρβος (Anazarbos) | City in northeastern Cilicia | 28 km south of Kozan in Adana Province on the Ceyhan River in Turkey | PECS ; Pleiades ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Ancalites | Smith ; | ||||
| Anchial | Ἀγχιάλη (Anchialē) | City in Cilicia | |||
| Anchial | Ἀγχίαλος (Anchialus) | City on the western Pontos coast | Smith ; | ||
| Anchiasm | Smith ; | ||||
| Anchisia | Smith ; | ||||
| Anchoe | Smith ; | ||||
| Ancon | Smith ; | ||||
| Ancona | Ἀγκών (Ankōn) | Port city in the Picenum | Ancona on the Italian Adriatic coast | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Ancorarius Mons | Smith ; | ||||
| Ancyra | Ἄγκυρα (Ankyra) | City in Galatia | Ankara in Turkey | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Ancyra | Ἄγκυρα (Ankyra) | City in Phrygia | Strab. 567, 576; Smith ; | ||
| Ancyron Polis | Smith ; | ||||
| Andania | Ἀνδανία | City in Messenia | > presumably Konstantíni | Smith ; | |
| Andanos | see Bargylia | ||||
| Andautonia | Stand camp and municipium in Pannonia superior | Šćitarjevo near Velika Gorica in Croatia | PECS ; RE ; | ||
| Andecavi , Andes | Celtic tribe in Aremorica | Smith ; | |||
| Andeda | City in Pisidia | PECS ; RE ; | |||
| Andeira | Smith ; | ||||
| Andematunnum | Ἀνδομάτουννον (Andomatounnon) | Capital of the Lingons in Gaul | Langres in the Haute-Marne department in France | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Anderida , Anderido, Anderitum | Anderitum Castle , a Roman fortress in Britain | Pevensey in East Sussex in southern England | PECS ; Smith ; | ||
| Difference | Ἀνδέρηδον (Anderēdon) | Capital of the Gaulish Gabali | Javols in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France | Ptol. 2.7.11; Sidon. epist. 5.13.2; 7.6.7; PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Andes | Village near Mantua in the Roman province of Gallia cisalpina , birthplace of the poet Virgil | Pietola near Mantua | Smith ; | ||
| Andetrium | Smith ; | ||||
| Andizetii | Smith ; | ||||
| Andosini | Smith ; | ||||
| Andrapa | Ἄνδραπα (Andrapa) | City in Paphlagonia | near Vezirköprü in the province of Samsun in Turkey | Smith ; | |
| Andriaca | Smith ; | ||||
| Andropolis | Ἀνδρῶν πόλις (Andrōn polis) | City in the province of Aegyptus | Smith ; | ||
| Andros | Ἄνδρος (Andros) | northernmost island of the Cyclades | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Andusia | Place in Gaul | Anduze in the Gard department in France | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Anemoreia | Smith ; | ||||
| Anemosa | Smith ; | ||||
| Anemurium | Ἀνεμούριον (Anemourion) | City in Cilicia | Eski Anamur, southwest of Anamur in Turkey | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Angea | Smith ; | ||||
| Angeia | Place in Thessaly | Loutropigi, northeast of Rentina in Greece | PECS ; Pleiades ; | ||
| Angele | Ἀγγελή (Angelē) | Attic demos of the Phyle Pandionis | Angelisi, between Markopoulos and Porto Rafti | ||
| Angites | Smith ; | ||||
| Angitiae Lucus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anglii | Smith ; | ||||
| Angrivarii | Smith ; | ||||
| Angulus | Smith ; | ||||
| Angustia | Roman military camp in Dacia | near Brețcu , Covasna County in Romania | PECS ; Pleiades ; | ||
| Anigraea | Smith ; | ||||
| Anigrus | Smith ; | ||||
| Aninetum | Smith ; | ||||
| Anio , Anien | Ἀνίων (Aniōn), Ἀνίης (Aniēs) | Border river between Latium and the land of the Sabines | Aniene | Smith ; | |
| Anitorgis | Smith ; | ||||
| Annamatia | Danube fort in Pannonia inferior | Remains in the southeast of the village of Baracs in Fejér County in Hungary | RE ; | ||
| Annibi Montes | Smith ; | ||||
| Anopaea | Smith ; | ||||
| Ansibarii | Smith ; | ||||
| Ansoba | Smith ; | ||||
| Antaeopolis | Smith ; | ||||
| Antandrus | Ἄντανδρος (Antandros) | City on the coast of the Troad | near Altinoluk in Turkey | Smith ; | |
| Antaradus | Smith ; | ||||
| Antemnae | Ἀντέμναι (Antemnai) | City in Lazio | 5.5 km north of Rome, at the mouth of the Aniene in the Tiber | Smith ; | |
| Anthedon | Ἀνθηδών (Anthēdōn) | City in Boeotia | on the coast north of Loukissia and west of Drosia in Greece | PECS ; Pleiades ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Anthedon , Agrippias | Ἀνθηδών (Anthēdōn) | City on the coast of Palestine | in the Gaza Strip | PECS ; Pleiades ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Anthedos | Harbor on the Saronic Gulf | PECS ; Pleiades ; | |||
| Antheia | Smith ; | ||||
| Anthela | Ανθήλη | RE ; Smith ; | |||
| Anthemus | RE ; Smith ; | ||||
| Anthemusia | Smith ; | ||||
| Anthemusia | Smith ; | ||||
| Anthene | Smith ; | ||||
| Anthylla | Smith ; | ||||
| Anticaria | City in Hispania Baetica | Antequera in Spain | PECS ; Pleiades ; | ||
| Anticinolis | Smith ; | ||||
| Anticirreha | Smith ; | ||||
| Anticragus | Smith ; | ||||
| Anticyra | Ἀντίκυρα (Antikyra) | City in Phocis on the Gulf of Corinth | west of Aspra Spitia in Greece | PECS ; Smith (1) ; | |
| Anticyra | Ἀντίκυρα (Antikyra) | City in Thessaly on the south bank of the Spercheios | in the alluvial area of the Sperchios | Smith (2) ; | |
| Anticyra | Ἀντίκυρα (Antikyra) | City in Lokris , probably identical to the Phocian city | Smith (3) ; | ||
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | Seleucid city on the Orontes , later relocated and renamed Antioch | Antakya in Turkey | Smith ; | |
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | original name of Alexandria Troas | Smith ; | ||
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | Name of Mantineia as a Macedonian new foundation | Smith ; | ||
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | City in Bithynia , the late antique Nicaea | İznik in Turkey | Smith ; | |
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | City on the west coast of Chalkidiki | Smith ; | ||
| Antigoneia | Ἀντιγόνεια (Antigoneia) | City in Chaonia , was founded in the 3rd century BC. Built by the Molossian king Pyrrhus on the walls of the Illyrian settlement Melan | 8 km from Girokastra in Albania | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antilibanus | Smith ; | ||||
| Antinoopolis , Antinoe | Ἀντινόου πόλις (Antinoou polis) | City in Egypt, newly founded by Hadrian in honor of his late lover Antinous | Sheikh Ibada | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antinum | City of the Martians | Civita d'Antino | RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Antioch | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | Antioch on the Orontes , one of the metropolises of the ancient world | Antakya in Turkey | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | temporarily the name of Mallos at the Pyramos in Cilicia | Kızıltahta , 28 kilometers southeast of Adana | RE ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | City on the Tigris, previously Alexandria on the Tigris, later Charax , capital of Charakene | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Antioch | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | City in Mygdonia | RE ; | ||
| Antioch | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | City on Chrysoroas , another name for Gerasa in the Decapolis | 40 kilometers north of Amman in Jordan | RE ; | |
| Antioch Kallirhoe | see Edessa 2 | ||||
| Antioch Margiana | Ἀντιόχεια Μαργιάνη (Antiocheia Margianē) | City in Parthia , previously Alexandria he Margiane | Giaur Kala in Merw | RE ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch ad Cragum | Ἀντιόχεια ἐπὶ Κράγῳ (Antiocheia epi Kragō) | City in Cilicia | Agalar Güneyi, 20 km southeast of Gazipaşa in Turkey | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch ad Maeandrum | Ἀντιόχεια πρὸς Μαιάνδρω (Antiocheia pros Maiandrō) | City on the meander in Caria | 15 km south of Kuyucak near Nazilli , Antiokya ruins | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch ad Pisidiam | Αντιόχεια τὴς Πισιδίας (Antiocheia tēs Pisidias) | City in Pisidia | Near today's Yalvaç in Turkey | PECS ; RE ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch ad Sarum | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | City on the Saros , temporarily the name of Adana in Cilicia | Adana | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch ad Taurum | Ἀντιόχεια (Antiocheia) | City on the Taurus Mountains in Kommagene | Ptol. 5.14.8); RE ; Smith ; | ||
| Antioch in Media | Αντιόχεια της Μηδίας (Antiocheia tēs Mēdias) | City in media | Nahavand in Hamadan Province in Iran | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antioch in Pieria | see Aradus 1 | ||||
| Antipatria | (Antipatreia) (Antipatrea) | City in Illyria | Berat in Albania | PECS ; Pleiades ; Smith ; | |
| Antipatris , Aphek | Ἀντιπατρίς (Antipatris), Ἄφακα (Aphaka) | City in Judea | near Tel Afek in Israel | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antiphellus | Ἀντίφελλος (Antiphellos) | City in Lycia | Kaş in southwest Turkey | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antiphrae | Smith ; | ||||
| Antipolis | Ἀντίπολις (Antipolis) | City in Gallia Narbonensis | Antibes in France | Smith ; | |
| Antiquarian | Smith ; | ||||
| Antirrhium | Smith ; | ||||
| Antissa | Ἄντισσα (Antissa) | City on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Lesbos | 9 km northeast of today's Antissa | Smith ; | |
| Antitaurus | Smith ; | ||||
| Antium | Ἄντιον (Antion) | Capital of the Volscs , a seaside resort during the imperial era | Anzio , 58 km south of Rome | PECS ; Smith ; | |
| Antivestaeum | Smith ; | ||||
| Antona | Smith ; | ||||
| Antonini Vallum | Line of fortifications on the northern border of Britain | Antonine Wall | |||
| Antoninopolis | Smith ; | ||||
| Antron | Smith ; | ||||
| Antunnacum | Roman city on the left bank of the Rhine | Then after | Smith ; | ||
| Anxanum | Lanciano in the Italian province of Chieti | Smith ; | |||
| Anxur | see Tarracina |
Individual evidence
- ^ William Saunders: The Miracle of Lanciano . Arlington Catholic Herald 2003, accessed December 26, 2016.