All the maps used on the podcast so far…
Anatolia and Armenia 1130 AD. Turkic and Latin capitals in red.
Anatolia and Armenia 1100 AD. Turkic and Latin capitals in red.
The Byzantine Balkans 1081AD. Major Roman garrisons in red.
Anatolia and Armenia 1025 AD. Significant Roman garrisons in red
Both maps above from Byzantine Military Organization on the Danube by Alexandru Madgearu
My map of the Balkans duing 11th century
The Balkans 976 AD
Anatolia 976AD
Anatolia 920AD with new Themes
The new walls of Nikephoros Phokas from The Making of Byzantium by Mark Whittow
Bagratuni Armenia circa 1000
The Themes c950AD
Bulgarian Empire c900 AD (from Runciman – First Bulgarian Empire)
The Major Varangian trade routes. The Volga route is in red. The Dneiper (and one other) in purple. Existing trade routes in orange
The Empire 900 AD
Europe and the Near East 900AD (worldhistorymaps.info)
Anatolia 842AD with new Themes
Arab-Byzantine border in Anatolia (author: CPlakidas at Wikipedia)
Anatolia 820AD with new Themes
Anatolia 780AD onwards with new Theme arrangements
The Realm of the Franks 481 to 814 (wikipedia)
Europe and the Middle East 800AD (worldhistorymaps.info)
Anatolia 700-800 AD from a base map by CPlakidas from Wikipedia
Topographical map of the Balkans (from wikipedia)
Europe and the Near East in 700 (from worldhistorymaps.info)
Arabia and the Fertile Crescent in 600 AD
The terrain of Europe and the Middle East from Colin McEvedy’s Atlas of Medieval Europe
The Themes in 668 AD from A History of the Byzantine State and Society by Warren Treadgold
The Eastern provinces (commons.wikimedia.orgwikiUserCplakidas)
Byzantine-Persian border
The campaigns of 624-28 by Mohammad Adil
The environs of Constantinople
The Byzantine Empire in 620 AD. That should give you an idea of the size of the task ahead of Heraclius
Linguistic map of the Byzantine Empire c565
The Eastern Hemisphere in 600AD
Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent, 565
The First Gothic War
Siege of Rome map from Ancient Warfare Magazine Volume IV, Issue 3 (www.ancient-warfare.com)
The Vandal War Campaign Map
The Lazican Border
The Roman-Persian frontier in late antiquity
The Roman Empire c400AD
Constantinople in the Byzantine era
The Byzantine Balkan Provinces in the 6th century
The Eastern Hemisphere in AD500
The History of Byzantium 
I’m not sure how helpful this will be or how accurate this map is but this YouTube video goes through the changing landscape of the entire world over the course of 50 centuries. https://youtu.be/dp0tqdu7fH4?t=4m51s
I started the video off at 462AD but you can go as far back as 3000BC to 2014AD.
Like I said, make sure to check for yourself of its accuracy and I hope that you do. Thanks for the podcast and continuing Mike Duncan’s work!
errrr the legend is difficult to read for us seniors .. 🙂 I can’t make out who’s who
Hello,
Thank you for this historical maps.
Can you help me? Who is the author of these maps? Or which is extracted from the book?
The maps are all online. The authors are credited on the individual episode pages https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/. If you google the title of the map you will probably find them. Most come from wikipedia where their authors are also credited. Only the maps of Anatolia at the top are edited by me based on CPlakidas’ work.
Thank you for answer. I want to use the maps on my thesis. That’s why I need authors or books.
now, what I write about you in my thesis, footnote or bibliography? what you want?
Well if you are using the maps of Anatolia at the top you can say maps courtesy of Robin Pierson (thehistoryofbyzantium.com). But if you are using some of the others then just credit wikipedia or the individual authors.
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Hi! I just recently listened to the episode about the battle of Dara and I was looking for the map of the disposition of the two armies. However, I cannot find the map anywhere here… would be glad if you’d send me a link or something.
Hey, the page for that episode is here https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/2013/01/05/episode-17-527-532-part-1-the-battle-of-dara/. You can find old episodes using the Index. Its on the right hand menu at the top of every page.
very interesting site
Hi, great job! Is there any book you would recommend that focuses on telling the history of Byzantium mostly through maps? I’ve already checked your bibliography and I haven’t found something so specific, unless you suggest more general books, like the Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire. Thanks!
The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History is full of maps about Byzantium. But it takes a dry, academic tone. It doesn’t tell the political history through maps either but covers wider issues like climate, use of the land, church history etc. It’s interesting but the maps are in black and white etc. Some drawbacks. The Penguin Atlas of medieval history that I recommend highly in the bibliography is really good for seeing political history develop but isn’t specific to Byzantium. The Cambridge History has few maps but is very good for those wanting to learn more academically.
Would you be willing to add a uniform naming convention to these maps so that those of us going through the early podcasts can follow along more easily? Since you frequently say things like “you can see this in the map from episode 11,” maybe you could add something like “Episode 11 Map” to the beginning of the description, so we know which episode it was created for.
For BONUS points, you could add all the episode numbers in brackets that each map is included in at the end of the description, e.g. “The Lazican Border [Ep. 8, 13, 14, 17, 18]..” That would be a LARGE list for your Constantinople map, haha! But right now it is very difficult to follow along with the maps, and I’ve had to abandon the map page and backtrack through the old blog posts just to make sure I’m able to follow along easily, or head over to Google to search for maps elsewhere. E.g. you may think it’s silly, because it’s listed right there on the second map, but the hunt for Sirmium caused me endless worry, and haunted my sleep.
… in fact I had to quit the podcast altogether, and ask my buddy Tiberius to take over for me, as I now spend most of my time biting my servants.
Apologies for the map confusion. I’m afraid I have no time at all at the moment to contemplate an update on that scale. There is a search box at the top of the page (right hand side) in which you can just enter “11” and you’ll quickly get to the episode number you want or use the index (a couple below that). But again, sorry for the inconvenience.
No apologies needed! You’ve already done me the biggest favor ever by taking the part of Roman history that I thought would be one slow, long, sad, overly pious slog and making it exciting and crystal clear instead–and where you CAN’T make it clear, you’ve dug into the historical sources and the controversies surrounding those and made THOSE clear. I couldn’t be happier with the podcast. And the website’s pretty darn good, too!
The history of Byzantium is an excellent podcast. Thank you for bringing into view the people and the events of the classical world. T. Marx
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I am really glad I found this podcast and have started listening to it recently. I am still at episode 27/28 so far. I am looking forward to learn more about the Eastern Romans their culture, history; and unfortunately, their gradual decline and fall. Thank you for your hardwork and have a good day!
Recently found this podcast, the narration is great and well presented with well described details. As I originated from the Balkans very interested to know more about how the Byzantium empire developed over the centuries until they have been conquered by the Turks.
Enjoying listening it,thanks for your effort and hardwork.
Thank you very muvh for letting me use your work
Much obliged
Hey, I’m a big fan of your maps!
Just traveled over to Greece, Turkey & Crotia from Australia. Found your podcast and have found it to be the best history lesson I am have ever heard/ learnt. Must be an enormous task. Only up to episode 45 and know how everything finishes up in 1453 but the detail you go into is amazing.
So glad you’re enjoying the show
Fabulous extension of Fall of Rome, well paced, well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.