Middle East & North Africa in 218 BC
218 BC is the year Hannibal crossed the Alps. This map shows the 24 states and peoples the data has for Middle East & North Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Middle East & North Africa in 218 BC
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Seleucid Empire
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Carthage
- Kingdom of Kush
- Parthian Empire
- Kingdom of Armenia
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Roman Republic
- Atropatene
- Antigonid Macedonia
- Kingdom of Pontus
- Hadhramaut
- Kingdom of Cappadocia
- Greek City-States
- Galatia
- Kingdom of Pergamon
- Sabaeans
- Kingdom of Bithynia
- Paphlagonia
- Minaeans
- Kingdom of Sophene
- Achaean League
- Aetolian League
- Qataban
New on the map since 318 BC
Ptolemaic Kingdom · Parthian Empire · Greco-Bactrian Kingdom · Atropatene · 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 · Greco-Bactrian Kingdom · Atropatene · Antigonid Macedonia · Galatia · Kingdom of Pergamon · Paphlagonia · Achaean League · Aetolian League
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Middle East & North 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.