The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN – A REGION IN FERMENT

Mediterranean

Sea

Theodosiopolis

Germanicia

Samosata

Martyropolis

Amida

Dara

Edessa

Antioch Harran

Nisibis

Beroea Callinicum

Chalcis

Apamea Resafa

Emesa

Palmyra Dura

Berytus

Heliopolis

Sidon

Ty r e

Babylon

Seleucia/

Ctesiphon

Ptolemais

Caesarea

Tiberias

Gaza

Damascus

Gerasa

Pella Philadelphia (Amman)

Madaba

Nessana

Aila (Aqaba, Eilat)

Monastery of

St. Catherine

Medina

Medina

Mecca

Najran

Scythopolis Gadara

Jerusalem

MESOP

OTAMIA

IBERI

LAZICA

COMMAGENE

OSRHOENE

GOLAN HAURAN

SINAI

MOAB

NEGEV

ARABIA

HIMYAR

AXUM

Bostra

B l a c k S e a

R e d

S e a

River Nile

Rive

rTi

RiverE gris

uphra

tes

Riv

erE

uphrates

Riv

erT

igris

C a s p i a n

S e a

Lake Van

0 250 km

0 500 km

Zenobia

Byzantine/Persian border

Map 8.1 The east in the sixth century