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 ; |