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Original – "Map of Armenia and the Roman client states in eastern Asia Minor, ca. 50 AD, before the Roman-Parthian War and the annexation of the client kingdoms into the Empire"
Reason
Nicely made vector map of high encyclopedic value.
Articles in which this image appears
Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity), Roman–Parthian War of 58–63
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator
Cplakidas
Kudos to Cplakidas, one of the greatest users I know. Misspellings of geographic names of this region are quite common, but how else would they spell Mtskheta? --Երևանցի talk 18:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, it's that I've never seen the name before, and it has five consonants in a row, so - as I do not know much about the languages of that part of the world - it looked wrong. Adam Cuerden (talk) 11:31, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I see. In reality it's 3 consecutive consonants (m, ts, kh), but since English doesn't have those letters, they are converted into two-letters each. --Երևանցի talk 19:42, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, my ignorance of Georgian aside, it's a fantastic map. Adam Cuerden (talk) 01:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
In terms of graphics I think the map could be clearer if the labels of cities were placed within the territory to which they belong if there is pace for that. For instance the map shows Amida to be in Sophene, but the label was placed in the KoA, although there is enough space in Sophene to display it there. Also I don't see why overlapping labels across borders when is not necessary, such as in the case of "Doliche". A minor issue: the "200" on the scale bar has a different font size than the "0". --ELEKHHT 23:51, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Roman East 50-en.svg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:52, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]