Roman Empire Map

Rome in 753 BC: map

The traditional date for the founding of Rome. There was no empire yet, so the map marks only the city.

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753 BCa symbolic circleThe traditional founding of Rome
Key

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.

Rome in 753 BC at a glance

In 753 BC, the traditional date for the founding of Rome, the map marks only the city, as a symbolic circle of 7.1 km² around its location. There is no territory to measure yet, so this is where the story starts.

Roman tradition says Romulus founded the city, though archaeologists think it grew gradually from villages on the hills beside the Tiber.

The traditional founding of Rome.

  • 7.1 km²symbolic circle
  • 1modern country inside

Symbolic: a circle of 1.5 km radius around the Pleiades location of Rome. The early city is not mapped. This is a symbolic circle around the location of Rome, not a mapped territory. Borders are approximate and debated.

Which modern countries were inside the empire in 753 BC?

1 modern country was at least partly inside the empire. The share is the part of today's country that fell inside the outline above.

CountryShare insideArea inside (km²)
Roman Italyunder 0.1%7.1

Shares are measured against the part of each country inside a box around the Mediterranean world, so overseas territories do not count. A country counts as inside only above 1% of its area or 500 km².

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