The Mediterranean in 218 BC
218 BC is the year Hannibal crossed the Alps. This map shows the 17 states and peoples the data has for The Mediterranean in that year.
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States and peoples in the Mediterranean in 218 BC
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Seleucid Empire
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Carthage
- Roman Republic
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Greek City-States
- Antigonid Macedonia
- Kingdom of Pontus
- Kingdom of Cappadocia
- Galatia
- Kingdom of Pergamon
- Cimmerian Bosporus
- Kingdom of Bithynia
- Paphlagonia
- Kingdom of Sophene
- Achaean League
- Aetolian League
New on the map since 318 BC
Ptolemaic Kingdom · Antigonid Macedonia · Kingdom of Pontus · Kingdom of Cappadocia · Galatia · Kingdom of Pergamon · Paphlagonia · Kingdom of Sophene · Achaean League · Aetolian League
Gone from the map by 118 BC
Carthage · Antigonid Macedonia · Galatia · Kingdom of Pergamon · Paphlagonia · Achaean League · Aetolian League
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The Mediterranean 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.