Sites register

The sites which are drawn in the eclipse maps vary according to the historical period. Prior to the Christian aera the most important archaeological sites are drawn: but in regions where the sites are located very close to each other it was necessary to make some sort of selection, which sometimes satisfies less the importance of a site than the legibility of the resulting map. For the Christian/Byzantine period mainly sites with cloisters have been chosen. The geograhical coordinates of the sites were collected in the Internet from a multitude of different sources. However, whenever available the geographical coordinates were taken from a Wikipedia article about the site.

Information about the most important sites of a period is extracted mainly from the following sources:

• Italy:
  • Ploetz (2008)^[1] between 2000 BC and 100 AD
  • Jedin (1970)^[2] after 100 AD
  
  
• Greece and Asia Minor:
  • Dickinson (1994)^[3] between 2500 and 1000 BC
  • Ploetz (2008)^[1] between 1000 BC and 100 AD
  • Jedin (1970)^[2] after 100 AD
  
  
• Near East:
  • Kuhrt (1995)^[4] between 2500 and 330 BC
  • Ploetz (2008)^[1] between 330 BC and 100 AD
  • Jedin (1970)^[2] after 100 AD
  
  
• Egypt:
  • Baines & Málek (1980)^[5] between 2500 BC and 100 AD
  • Jedin (1970)^[2] between 100 AD and 800 AD
  • Ploetz (2008)^[1] after 800 AD

all sites	Greece and Asia Minor	Italy	Near East	Egypt
-2500 to -2150	-2500 to -1900	-2500 to -700	-2500 to -2000	-2500 to -2150
-2150 to -2080	-2500 to -1900	-2500 to -700	-2500 to -2000	-2150 to -2080
-2080 to -1900	-2500 to -1900	-2500 to -700	-2000 to -1500	-2080 to -1750
-1900 to -1750	-1900 to -1200	-2500 to -700	-2000 to -1500	-2080 to -1750
-1750 to -1500	-1900 to -1200	-2500 to -700	-2000 to -1500	-1750 to -1550
-1500 to -1200	-1900 to -1200	-2500 to -700	-1500 to -1200	-1550 to -1070
-1200 to -1000	-1200 to -700	-2500 to -700	-1200 to -300	-1550 to -1070
-1000 to -700	-1200 to -700	-2500 to -700	-1200 to -300	-1070 to -700
-700 to -500	-700 to -500	-700 to -500	-1200 to -300	-700 to -300
-500 to -300	-500 to -330	-500 to 0	-1200 to -300	-700 to -300
-300 to 0	-330 to +325	-500 to 0	-300 to 0	-300 to +100
0 to +100	-330 to +325	0 to +325	0 to +325	-300 to +100
+100 to +325	-330 to +325	0 to +325	0 to +325	+100 to +800
+325 to +800	+325 to +1000	+325 to +1000	+325 to +1000	+100 to +800
+800 to +1000	+325 to +1000	+325 to +1000	+325 to +1000	+800 to +1000

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Bibliography

• 1 K. J. Ploetz (Begründer), Der grosse Ploetz. Die Enzyklopädie der Weltgeschichte, 35. Auflage, Freiburg 2008.
• 2 H. Jedin (Hrsg.), Atlas zur Kirchengeschichte, Freiburg 1970.
• 3 O. Dickinson, The Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge 1994.
• 4 A. Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000 - 330 BC, London 1995.
• 5 J. Baines & J. Málek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Oxford 1980.

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This work was supported by a Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Created by Rita Gautschy, version 1.0, January 2011