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Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy): Roman province map

A merged unit on the source map, combining several provinces.

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AD 117about 4,880,924 km²The empire at its greatest extent, after Trajan's eastern conquests; Trajan dies and Hadrian succeeds. Ruler: Trajan, then Hadrian.
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Territory

  • Roman Empire Territory at the chosen date
  • Eastern empire From AD 395, the part later called Byzantine
  • Western empire AD 395 and, as reconquests, AD 565

Layers

  • Province border Where provinces are shown, AD 200 outlines
  • Roman city Pleiades places attested in the period
  • Main Roman road Itiner-e, about AD 150 (not tied to the date)
  • Modern country border Today’s borders, for comparison

Borders are approximate and debated. Frontier zones were not hard lines, and client kingdoms are not counted unless the source map includes them. Outlines for 133 BC, 44 BC, AD 14 and the later dates are rebuilt from the province outlines of AD 200, so early frontiers look more settled than they were. 264 BC and the Byzantine dates follow modern regional boundaries and are coarser still. 753 BC is a symbolic dot on Rome.

Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) at a glance

This unit combines several provinces. The Po plain, Liguria, Venetia and Istria as AWMC draws them (several Augustan regions). Cisalpine Gaul was conquered by 191 BC; Liguria and Istria were completed within the next few decades. The dates and capital below are for the main province in the unit.

  • 191 BCfirst Roman
  • AD 476no longer Roman
  • 125,589 km²area on the AD 200 map

Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) is a single unit on the source map that joins several provinces. Its main province was Roman from 191 BC to AD 476 and from AD 554. On the AD 200 map it covers about 125,589 km², spread across Italy (84%), Slovenia (7%) and Switzerland (5.7%) today. It is inside the empire on the map at 133 BC, 44 BC, AD 14, AD 117, AD 211, AD 395 and AD 565.

Dates: Wikipedia: Cisalpine Gaul; Roman Italy. The outline is the Ancient World Mapping Center province map of AD 200, so earlier and later shapes of the province may have differed.

Which modern countries does Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) cover?

CountryShare of the provinceArea (km²)
Roman Italy84%105,224
Roman Slovenia7%8,847
Roman Switzerland5.7%7,141
Roman Croatia2.5%3,124
Roman Austria0.4%541
San Marinounder 0.1%6

Gallia Cisalpina (northern Italy) on the key dates

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