ALEXANDER THE GREAT, c.326-325 BCE
 
 

A very clever animated map of Alexander's route

Source: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/alexander.gif
(downloaded June 2006)


*A view of Alexander's conquests, from the first German edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Minor, Amsterdam, 1609*


*Alexander's empire according to Robert de Vaugondy, 1753*; *a closeup of the India map*

Source: http://www.yale.edu/nelc/alexander_map.html
(downloaded July 2006)


*Alexander's route, according to Robert Wilkinson's "General Atlas of the World," 1807 (1794)*


"Alexander's empire at its maximum extent," from the Shepherd historical atlas, 1923; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN

Source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/macedonian_empire_336_323.jpg
(downloaded Sept. 2006)


A modern overview of the territories through which Alexander passed

Source: http://www.history.upenn.edu/hist086/mapfram1.htm
(downloaded Aug. 2001)


The best map of Alexander's journeys of conquest; CLICK ON THE MAP FOR A VERY LARGE SCAN

Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/MacedonEmpire.jpg
(downloaded Nov. 2007)


*A large map that shows Alexander's Indian route, including many modern place-names*

Source: http://www.belfun.com/Amaury/images/20010824%20Islamabad%20Taxila%2011.JPG
(downloaded Nov. 2004)



*Alexander's empire in its global context (a very large map)*

Source: http://www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/Alexander_323bc.jpg
(downloaded Sept. 2008)


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