Classical geography

1st-century Roman military commander and writer

1st-century BC Greek historian

Scythia (, ) or Scythica (, ) was a geographic region defined in the ancient Graeco-Roman world that encompassed the Pontic steppe. It was inhabited by Scythians, an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people. thumb|400px|The maximum extent of Pontic Scythia.

1st century Greco-Roman periplus

thumb|1747 map with all the oceans surrounding the African continent

thumb|The "Second Map of Asia" (Tabula Seconda de Asia), 1467

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thumb|The Catoblepas as depicted by Jan Jonston, Historia naturalis de quadrupedibus, Amsterdam, 1657 The catoblepas (from Latin catōblepas, ultimately from Greek καταβλέπω (katablépō) "to look downwards") is a legendary creature from Aethiopia, first described by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus.

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The Cassiterides (, meaning "tin place", from , kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe.

Baltia, Basilia or Abalus is a mythic island in northern Europe mentioned in Greco-Roman geography in the connection of amber.

mountain range, imagined from Homer onwards to exist north of the known parts of Europe.

The Abii () were possibly an ancient people described by several ancient authors. They were placed by Ptolemy in the extreme north of Scythia extra Imaum, near the Hippophagi ("horse eaters"); but there are very different opinions about whether they existed. Strabo discourses on the various opinions respecting the Abii up to his time.

thumb|Map of Rome under the monarchy Crustumerium (or Crustumium) was an ancient town of Latium, on the edge of the Sabine territory, near the headwaters of the Allia, not far from the Tiber.

Roman writer and geographer

large-format English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard J. A. Talbert