The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

VISIGOTHS

M e d i t e r r a n e a n S e a

A t l a n t i cO c e a n

Riv

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bun

e

FRANKS

LOMBARDS

GEPIDS

AVARS THEBAID

B l a c k S e a

Septem

Cartagena

Massilia

Milan

Ravenna

Rome

Capua

Naples

Tarentum

Syracuse

Carthage

Sbeitia

Tripolis

Sirmium

Serdica

Justiniana

Prima

JustinianaSecunda

Constantinople

Corinth

Athens

Seleucia

Antioch

CYPRUS

CaesareaJerusalem

Alexandria

Arsinoe

Oxyrhynchus

Aphrodito

Panopolis

NitriaScetis

Tabennisi

Nicopolis

CRETE

0

500 km

Justinian’s conquests

Map 5.1

The ‘reconquest’ of Justinian