Achaemenid Empire Map

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Achaemenid Empire Map
Map of the Achaemenid Persian Empire at its greatest extent.

nspired by Historical Atlas of Georges Duby (p.11, map D), this map was made by Fabienkhan the 24th of August 2006, using Inkscape and GIMP. Arad translated the map to help.

Uploaded by Jan van der Crabben. Original illustration by Fabienkhan.

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Antoine Simonin wrote on 2012-01-10 17:54:22:

Achaemenids never controlled the Northern Black Sea area; the Anatolian Pontos region and Armenia were vassals, so maybe was Arabian Maka. And in the East, Sogdiana was the north-easternmost point they controlled, as was Gandhara in the East.

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