Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire

[First posted in AWOL 17 April 2014, updated 28 January 2022]
 
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire

Welcome to the new Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE), hosted and managed by the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

License
You can use the tiled background map of the Roman Empire in your own web applications. Tiles are available for zoom levels between 4 and 11. Use this link with your Javascript mapping library (Leaflet, OpenLayers, etc.).
https://dh.gu.se/tiles/imperium/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

The map is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)

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Transformation: The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 A.D.

 [First posted in AWOL 4 December 2012, updated 8 June 2014]

Transformation

The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 A.D.

Under Roman rule in the first two centuries AD there emerged a society similar in appearance from the British Isles to the Black Sea, influenced by the culture and civilisation of the Mediterranean. With this common culture there developed regional characteristics which had their origins in the society and everyday life of pre-Roman times. The aim of the project is to show how these developments took place by looking at a number of thematic areas...

Summary

Modern Countries

Austria

Bulgaria

Czech

Germany

Great Britain

Hungary

Netherlands

Romania

Slovakia

Themes

Creation of Province Structures

Emergence of Civitas capitals

Emergence of Vici

Emergence of Villae Landscape

Emergence of Production

Developments of Cults

Changes of burial rituals

Changes of costumes

Funerary Monuments

Literacy

Roman Influences in Barbaricum