Africa in 218 BC
218 BC is the year Hannibal crossed the Alps. This map shows the 17 states and peoples the data has for Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Africa in 218 BC
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Seleucid Empire
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Kingdom of Kush
- Carthage
- Atropatene
- Hadhramaut
- Sabaeans
- Greek City-States
- Minaeans
- Roman Republic
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Parthian Empire
- Qataban
- Achaean League
- Kingdom of Cappadocia
- Antigonid Macedonia
- Kingdom of Pergamon
New on the map since 318 BC
Ptolemaic Kingdom · Atropatene · Roman Republic · Parthian Empire · Achaean League · Kingdom of Cappadocia · Antigonid Macedonia · Kingdom of Pergamon
Gone from the map by 118 BC
Carthage · Atropatene · Achaean League · Antigonid Macedonia · Kingdom of Pergamon
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Africa in other years
Other regions in 218 BC
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.