List of the Principal Place Names Mentioned in the Text, with their Modern Equivalents

Modern equivalents marked with an*asterisk are approximations only

Adrianople – Edirne, Thrace, European Turkey

Aemona – Ljubljana, Slovenia

Altai Mountains – mountain range in western Mongolia, sacred to the Huns and to many other peoples

Aquileia – present-day city dates only from Middle Ages

Aquincum – Budapest

Argentoratum – Strasbourg

Augusta Treverorum – Trier

Aureliana – Orleans

Azimuntium – in Thrace, precise location unknown

Bononia – Bologna

Britain – England and Wales

Burdigala – Bordeaux

Cameracum – Cambrai

Carbonarian Forest – the Ardennes*

Carnuntum – Petronell, Austria*

Carthago Nova – Cartagena, Spain

Catalaunian Fields – near Chalons in Champagne,

France, precise location unknown

Cisalpine Gaul – Lombardy

Colonia Agrippina – Cologne

Constantinople (also Byzantium) – Istanbul

Corduba – Cordova

Dacia – Romania

Dumnonia – Devon

Dyrrachium – Durres, Albania

Euxine Sea – the Black Sea

Fiorentia – Florence

Gades – Cadiz

Gallia Narbonensis – southern France*

Gaul – France

Gessoriacum – Boulogne

Hungvar – the Hungarian plain

Illyricum – Croatia/Bosnia/Serbia/Albania*

Isca Dumnoniorum, also Esca – Exeter

Lauriacum – Enns, Austria

Leptis Magna – Labda, Libya

Londinium – London

Lutetia – Paris

Maeotis Palus – the Sea of Azov

Marcianople – Devnya, Bulgaria

Margus – Pozarevac, Serbia

Massilia – Marseilles

Mauretania – Morocco*

Mediolanum – Milan

Mediomatrice – Metz

Mincius – River Mincio, Northern Italy

Moesia – northern Bulgaria/Macedonia*

Moguntiacum – Mainz

Mosa – River Meuse

Naissus – Nis

Narbo – Narbonne

Neapolis – Naples

Noricum – Austria*

Padus – River Po

Panium – a humble and unremarked little town in Thrace

Pannonia – Hungary*

Parthia – Persia, Iran*

Philippopolis – Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Ratiaria – Archar, Bulgaria*

Rhaetia – Switzerland

Rhemi – Rheims

Sardica – Sofia, Bulgaria

Scythia – Russia, Ukraine*, Kazakhstan*, and all points east

Sequana – River Seine

Singidunum – Belgrade

Sirmium – Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia

Tanais – River Don

Tingis – Tangier

Tolosa – Toulouse

Tornacum – Tournai

Trajanopolis – Maroneia, Greece*

Utus – River Vit, Bulgaria

Vangiones – Worms

Viminacium – Kostolac, Serbia

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