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  2. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  3. Valeriana (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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    The city layout pattern and architecture of Valeriana matches that of the Chactún-Tamchen area to the southeast of the site. [2] The city contains multiple plazas, temple pyramids, a ballgame court, and a dammed reservoir.

  4. Mysia - Wikipedia

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    The precise limits of Mysia are difficult to assign. The Phrygian frontier was fluctuating, while in the northwest the Troad was only sometimes included in Mysia. [1] The northern portion was known as "Lesser Phrygia" or (Ancient Greek: μικρὰ Φρυγία, romanized: mikra Phrygia; Latin: Phrygia Minor), while the southern was called "Greater Phrygia" or "Pergamene Phrygia".

  5. Portal:Civilizations - Wikipedia

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    A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of the state , social stratification , urbanization , and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely ...

  6. Sokhta Koh - Wikipedia

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    Indus Valley civilization Sokhta Koh (also known as Sotka Koh ; lit. "burnt hill") is a Harappan site on the Makran coast, near the city of Pasni , in the Balochistan province of Pakistan . It was first surveyed by American archaeologist George F. Dales in 1960, while exploring estuaries along the Makran coast.

  7. Old World - Wikipedia

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    In the context of archaeology and world history, the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in (indirect) cultural contact from the Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations, mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels north, in the area of the Mediterranean, including North Africa.

  8. Garamantes - Wikipedia

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    Location of the Garamantes in the Fezzan c. 600 AD, before the Islamic conquest. In the 1960s, archaeologists excavated part of the Garamantes' capital at modern Germa (situated around 150 km west of modern-day Sabha) and named it Garama (an earlier capital, Zinkekara, was located not far from the later Garama). Current research indicates that ...

  9. Ganweriwal - Wikipedia

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    Ganweriwala was the 5th largest city [9] within the Indus Valley Civilisation and is believed to have been a major centre from 2600 to 1900 BC. [9] [12] The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age Civilisation [13] [14] which at its zenith had an estimated population of 5 million. [13]