List of ancient place names and geographical names / Me
Latin name |
Greek name |
description | today | Sources and References | location
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Mearus | Smith ; | ||||
Meciris | Smith ; | ||||
Mecyberna | Smith ; | ||||
Medaura | Smith ; | ||||
Medava | Smith ; | ||||
Medeba | Smith ; | ||||
Medes | Μηδέν (Mēden) | City in Numidia | Smith ; | ||
Medena | Smith ; | ||||
Medeon | Μεδεών | City in Phocis | Smith (2) ; | ||
Medeon | Μεδεών , Μεδίων (Medion) | City in Akarnania | Smith (1) ; | ||
Medeon | Μεδεών | City in Boeotia | Smith (3) ; | ||
Mederiacum | Smith ; | ||||
Media | Μηδία (Mēdia) | Area around Ekbatana on the Zāgros Mountains in the Iranian highlands inhabited by the Medes | Smith ; | ||
Mediae Murus | Smith ; | ||||
Mediam | Smith ; | ||||
Mediana | imperial residence in Moesia superior | in an eastern suburb of Niš in Serbia | Smith ; | ||
Mediana | Roman garrison site on the Rhaetian Limes | Location in the hallways of the Gnotzheim market in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Bavaria | |||
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | City in Gallia cisalpina | Milan in Northern Italy | Smith ; | |
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | Place in Gallia cisalpina | Smith (1) ; | ||
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | Place of the Bituriger in Aquitania I | Châteaumeillant in France | Smith (2) ; | |
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | Place in Germania | at Geldern in North Rhine-Westphalia | Smith (3) ; | |
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | Place in Germania | Smith ; | ||
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | City in Britain | Smith ; | ||
Mediolanum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | late antique fort in Moesia superior | |||
Mediolanum aulercorum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | City in Gaul | Evreux in France | Smith (4) ; | |
Mediolanum Santonum | Μεδιολάνον (Mediolanon) | City in Gaul | Saintes in France | Smith (5) ; | |
Mediomatrici | Smith ; | ||||
Medion | see Meteon | ||||
Mediterraneum Mare | Smith ; | ||||
Medma | City on the west coast of Bruttium | near Rosarno in Calabria | Smith ; | ||
Medmasa | Smith ; | ||||
Medoacus | Smith ; | ||||
Medobriga | Smith ; | ||||
Medoslanium | Smith ; | ||||
Meduacus | Smith ; | ||||
Meduana | Smith ; | ||||
Meduantum | Smith ; | ||||
Meduli | Smith ; | ||||
Medulli | Μεδούαλλοι (Medoualloi) | Celtic tribe in the Alps | Smith ; | ||
Medullia | Smith ; | ||||
Medullus | Smith ; | ||||
Medus | Smith ; | ||||
Megabari | Smith ; | ||||
Megalia | Smith ; | ||||
Megalopolis | Μεγαλόπολις (Megalopolis) | City in Arcadia | Megalopoli in Greece | Smith ; | |
Megalopolis | see Aphrodisias | ||||
Megalopolis | see Sebasteia | ||||
Megara | City on the Isthmus of Corinth | Megara in Greece | Smith ; | ||
Megara Hyblaea | Greek colony in Sicily | 21 km north of Syracuse | Smith ; | ||
Megaris | Smith ; | ||||
Megaris | Smith ; | ||||
Megiddo | see Legio | ||||
Megiddo Vallis | Smith ; | ||||
Megiste | Smith ; | ||||
Megistus | Smith ; | ||||
Meiacarire | Smith ; | ||||
Meilichus | Smith ; | ||||
Mela , Mella | River in Gallia transpadana | Mella in Italy | Smith ; | ||
Melae | Smith ; | ||||
Melaena | Μέλαινα (Melaina) | Headland in Ionia | the northwestern end of the Karaburun peninsula | Smith (1) ; | 38 ° 40 ' N , 26 ° 22' E |
Melaena | Μέλαινα (Melaina) | Headland in Bithynia | 2 km west of Sahilköy on the Black Sea coast | Smith (2) ; | 41 ° 13 ' N , 29 ° 23' E |
Melaena | Μέλαινα (Melaina) | Headland on Chios | at the village of Melanios | Smith (3) ; | 38 ° 33 ' N , 25 ° 50' E |
Melaenae | Smith ; | ||||
Melaeneae | Smith ; | ||||
Melambium | Smith ; | ||||
Melanchlaeni | Smith ; | ||||
Melanditae | Smith ; | ||||
Melangeia | Smith ; | ||||
Melania | Μελανία (Melania) | Coastal town in Cilicia | Smith ; | ||
Melanippe | Smith ; | ||||
Melanogetuli | Smith ; | ||||
Melanthius | Μελάνθιος (Melanthios) | River on the north coast of Pontos | Melet Çayı | Smith ; | |
Melantias | Smith ; | ||||
Melantii Scopuli | Smith ; | ||||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Arcadia | Smith (1) ; | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Boeotia | Smith (2) ; | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | Tributary of the Spercheios in Malis | Smith (3) ; | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Phthiotis | Smith (4) ; | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Thrace , flows into the Melas Kolpos | Kavak in Turkey | Smith (5) ; | 40 ° 36 ' N , 26 ° 50' E |
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | Tributary of the Halys in Cappadocia | Karasu Çayı , left headwaters of the Delice Çayı, a tributary of the Kızılırmak in Turkey | Smith (1) ; | |
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Pamphylia | Manavgat in Turkey | Smith (2) ; | |
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Pontos | Smith (3) ; | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | River in Cappadocia | Tohma Çayı in Turkey | ||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | right tributary of the Orontes | |||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | small river in the tracheotis , flows into the Mediterranean | |||
Melas | Μέλας (Melas) | small river in Sicily | the Male , flows about 3 km west of Milazzo | ||
Melas sinus | Smith ; | ||||
Meldi | Smith ; | ||||
Meldia | Smith ; | ||||
Meles | Μέλης (Melēs) | Waters near Smyrna , on the banks of which, according to legend, Homer wrote his poems | possibly the Halkapınar , a spring pond in İzmir that drains into the Mediterranean | Smith ; | |
Meles | Μέλης (Melēs) | small river in Paphlagonia , flows into the Black Sea at Kromna | flows out about 5 km west of Kuruçasile in Turkey | ||
Melesses | Smith ; | ||||
Melibocus | Μηλίβοκον ὄρος (Mēlibokon oros) | Mountains in Germania magna | Harz , previously wrongly identified as a mountain in the Odenwald , see Melibokus | Ptol 2.11.7; Smith ; | |
Meliboea | Island in the mouth of the Orontes | Smith ; | |||
Meliboea | Μελίβοια (Meliboia) | City on the east coast of the Magnesia Peninsula | Livy 36.13.6; Smith (2) ; | ||
Meliboea | Μελίβοια (Meliboia) | Place in western Thessaly | Smith (2) ; | ||
Melinophagi | Smith ; | ||||
Melita | Μελίτη (Melitē) | Island in the Mediterranean | Malta | Smith ; | |
Melita | Μελίτη (Melitē) | Liburnian island in the Adriatic | Mljet southeast of Korkyra , today | Smith ; | |
Melitaea | Μελιταία (Melitaia), Μελίτη (Melitē) | City in the Phthiotis | Melitea in southern Thessaly | Smith ; | 39 ° 3 ' N , 22 ° 27' E |
Melite | Μελίτη (Melitē) | Lake in Akarnania | Smith (1) ; | ||
Melite | Μελίτη (Melitē) | Athenian demos of the Phyle Kekropis | Smith (2) ; | ||
Melitene | Μελιτηνή (Melitēnē) | City in Eastern Cappadocia | Malatya in Turkey | Smith ; | |
Melitene | Μελιτηνή (Melitēnē) | Area west of the city of Melitene, later a Byzantine province in the Armeniakon | Smith ; | ||
Melitonus | Smith ; | ||||
Melitta | Base Hanno the Navigator on the West African coast | Smith ; | |||
Melizigara | Smith ; | ||||
Mella | see Mela | ||||
Mellaria | Smith ; | ||||
Mellisurgis | Smith ; | ||||
Mellosedum | Smith ; | ||||
Meloboteira | Smith ; | ||||
Melodunum | Smith ; | ||||
Melos | Μῆλος (Mēlos) | Island in the Aegean Sea , also the main town of the island | Milos | Smith ; | |
Melotis | Smith ; | ||||
Melpeia | Smith ; | ||||
Melpes | Smith ; | ||||
Melpis | Smith ; | ||||
Melpum | Smith ; | ||||
Melsiagum | Smith ; | ||||
Melsus | Smith ; | ||||
Membliarus | Smith ; | ||||
Membresa | Smith ; | ||||
Memini | Smith ; | ||||
Memnonenses | Smith ; | ||||
Memphis | Smith ; | ||||
Menaenum | Smith ; | ||||
Menapia | Smith ; | ||||
Menapii | Smith ; | ||||
Menapila | Smith ; | ||||
Mende | Μένδη (Mendē) | City on the Chalkidike | Kalandra in Greece | Smith ; | |
Mendes | Μένοδης (Menodēs) | Gau capital in Lower Egypt | Tell al-Rubˁ in the eastern Nile Delta | Smith ; | |
Mendiculeia | Smith ; | ||||
Menedemium | Smith ; | ||||
Menelai Portus | Smith ; | ||||
Menelaium | Smith ; | ||||
Menelaus | Μενέλαος (Menelaus) | City on the coast of Libya | Smith ; | 31 ° 58 ' N , 24 ° 54' E | |
Menesthei Portus | Smith ; | ||||
Meninx | Μήνιγξ (Mēninx) | Island off the coast of Libya | Djerba off Tunisia | Smith ; | |
Mennis | Smith ; | ||||
Menoba | Smith ; | ||||
Menosca | Smith ; | ||||
Menosgada | Μηνοσγάδα (Mēnosgada) | Location in Germania magna | on the Obermain , probably on the Frankish Staffelberg | Smith ; | |
Mentesa | City of Bastulians in Hispania Baetica | Villanueva de la Fuente in Spain | Smith (2) ; | ||
Mentesa Bastia | Tarraconensis town in Hispania | La Guardia de Jaén in Andalusia | Smith (1) ; | ||
Mentonomon | Coastal area of the North Sea | Coastal area of the German Bight and the Elbe estuary | Smith ; | ||
Mentores | Smith ; | ||||
Menuthias | Smith ; | ||||
Mercutrii Prom | Smith ; | ||||
Mergablum | Smith ; | ||||
Merinum | Smith ; | ||||
Mermessus | Smith ; | ||||
Merobrica | Smith ; | ||||
Meroe | Μερόη (Meroē) | Capital of the African kingdom of Kush | 45 km northeast of Shandi near the village of Begrawija in Sudan | Smith ; | |
Merom | Lake in Israel, fed by the headwaters of the Jordan | in the Chula plain , silted up today | Smith ; | ||
Meroz | Μερώζ (Merōz) | City in Palestine | Smith ; | ||
Merula | River in Liguria | Merula in Italy | Smith ; | ||
Merus | Smith ; | ||||
Merva | Smith ; | ||||
Mesambria | Μεσαμβρίη (Mesambriē) | Place on the south coast of the Persis | Smith ; | ||
Mesambria | City on the Black Sea coast | Nessebar in Bulgaria | Smith (1) ; | ||
Mesambria | City in Thrace on the northern Aegean coast near the Struma | Smith (2) ; | |||
Mesanites Sinus | Smith ; | ||||
Mesche Mons | Smith ; | ||||
Meshela | Smith ; | ||||
Mese | Island of the Stoichades | one of the Îles d'Hyères off the French coast, possibly Porquerolles | Smith ; | ||
Mese | Rock island off the northwest coast of Crete | Imeri Gramvousa | |||
Mesembria | see Mesambria | ||||
Mesene | Smith ; | ||||
Mesma | Smith ; | ||||
Mesoa | Smith ; | ||||
Mesoboa | Smith ; | ||||
Mesogaea | Smith ; | ||||
Mesogis | Smith ; | ||||
Mesopotamia | Μεσοποταμία (Mesopotamia) | Mesopotamia , the Mesopotamia , plain between the Euphrates and Tigris | Iraq and Syria | Smith ; | |
Mespila | Smith ; | ||||
Messa | Smith ; | ||||
Messabatene | Smith ; | ||||
Messana | Μεσσήνη (Messēnē) | City in Sicily | Messina in Italy | Smith ; | |
Messapia | Smith ; | ||||
Messapium | Smith ; | ||||
Fair ice | Smith ; | ||||
Messene | Μεσσήνη (Messēnē) | City in the Peloponnese , capital of Messenia | 16 km northwest of Messini in Greece | Smith ; | |
Messenia | Smith ; | ||||
Messeniacus Sinus | Smith ; | ||||
Mesua | Smith ; | ||||
Metagonitae | Smith ; | ||||
Metagonites Prom | Smith ; | ||||
Metagonium | Smith ; | ||||
Metalla | Iron and lead mining in Sardinia with a sanctuary of Sardus Pater | on the Antas river between Fluminimaggiore and Iglesias | PECS ; Pleiades ; | ||
Metallinum | Smith ; | ||||
Metallum | Smith ; | ||||
Metapa | Μέταπα (Metapa) | City in Aetolia | Analipsis in Greece | Smith ; | |
Metapinum ostium | Smith ; | ||||
Metapontum | Μεταπόντιον (metapontion) | Colony in the Magna Graecia | Metaponto in the Bernalda area in the province of Matera in Italy | Smith ; | |
Metaris | Smith ; | ||||
Metaurum | Smith ; | ||||
Metaurus | Smith ; | ||||
Metellinum | Smith ; | ||||
Meteon | Smith ; | ||||
Methana | Μέθανα (Methana) | Peninsula on the Argolis on the Saronic Gulf at the eastern tip of the Peloponnese | Methana in Greece | Smith ; | |
Methone | Μεθώνη (Methōnē) | City on the Thermaic Gulf in Pieria in Macedonia | Nea Agathoupolis north of Methoni | Smith ; | |
Methone | Μεθώνη (Methōnē) | City in Messenia | Methoni in Greece | Smith (1) ; | 36 ° 49 ' N , 21 ° 42' E |
Methone | Μεθώνη (Methōnē) | City in Magnesia | Smith (2) ; | 39 ° 20 ' N , 23 ° 4' E | |
Methone | Μεθώνη (Methōnē) | City in Thrace | maybe at Moustheni at Pieris in Greece | ||
Methora | Smith ; | ||||
Methuriades | Smith ; | ||||
Methydrium | Smith ; | ||||
Methymna | Μήθυμνα (Mēthymna) | City on Lesbos | Mithymna | Smith ; | |
Methymna | Μήθυμνα (Mēthymna) | City in Crete | Smith ; | ||
Metina insula | Smith ; | ||||
Metiosedum | Smith ; | ||||
Metores | Smith ; | ||||
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Ionia | near Özbey in the district of Torbalı in the province of Izmir in western Turkey | Smith (1) ; | |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in northern Phrygia | Oynaş, southeast of Kümbet in Turkey | Smith (2) ; | |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in southern Phrygia in the Conventus of Apamea Kibotos | Tatarli , about 20 km north of Senirkent in the province of Isparta in Turkey | Smith (3) ; | |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in the European part of Sarmatia | Ptol. 3,5,28; Smith ; | ||
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Thessaly | Mitropoli in the Karditsa Regional Unit (Regional Unit) in Greece | Smith (1) ; | |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Perrhaebia , in northern Thessaly | Smith (2) ; | ||
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Akarnania | Palaiomanina , 5 km west of Angelokastro in Greece | Smith (3) ; | |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Amphilochia | about 10 km north of Amfilochia on the Ambracian Gulf | Smith (4) ; | 38 ° 58 ' N , 21 ° 9' E |
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Doris | Smith (5) ; | ||
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City on Euboea | Smith (6) ; | ||
Metropolis | Μητρόπολις (Mētropolis) | City in Pontus, capital of the Mossynoics | in the coastal area of the Giresun Province (Province) in Turkey | ||
Metulum | Smith ; | ||||
Mevania | Μηουανία (Mēouania) | City in Umbria | Bevagna in Italy | Smith ; | |
Mevaniola | Smith ; |