A | B |
Alps | mountain range north of Italy |
Appennines | mountain running down center of Italy |
Mt. Vesuvius | volcano near Pompeii; erupted in 79 CE |
Mt. Etna | volcano on Sicily |
Ostia | port of Rome |
Carthage | Phonecian city on north coast of Africa |
Brundisium | city on coast of southeastern Italy; place from which to sail to Greece |
Corsica and Sardinia | islands off the west coast of Italy |
Sicily (Trinacria) | triangular island off the "toe" of Italy's "boot" |
Tiber | river flowing through Rome to Ostia |
Rubicon | stream in northern Italy separating Gaul from Italy; crossed by Caesar where he said "alea iacta est" |
Mare Tyrrhenum | sea west of Rome |
Mare Adriaticum | sea between Italy and Greece |
Mare Ionium | sea southeast of Sicily |
Strait of Messina (Fretum Siculum) | strait between Sicily and Italy |
orbis terrarum | the world |
Mare Aegaeum | sea between Greece and Asia Minor; Theseus' father leaped to his death here |
Caledonia | Scotland |
Gallia | France |
Mare Nostrum | Mediterranean |
Hispania | Spain |
Hibernia | Ireland |
Graecia | Greece |
Aegyptus | Egypt |
Britannia | Britain |
Peloponnesus | Peloponnese |