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Description

Map of the "barbarian" invasions of the Roman Empire showing the major incursions from 100 to 500 CE.
Source

self-made
Date

01-10-2006
Author

User:MapMaster
Permission
(Reusing this image)

see below

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[edit] References

  • Cornell, Tim; Matthews, John (1982), Atlas of the Roman World, Facts on File, NY, ISBN: 0871966522.
  • Ermatinger, James W; (2004) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Greenwood Pub Group, NY, ISBN: 0313326924.
  • Various, Historical Atlas of the World, 1970, Barnes & Noble, NY.

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Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current08:35, 17 July 20071,962×1,374 (139 KB)Nihad Hamzic (Removed alpha channel, what enabled me to losslessly reduce color domain to 8-bit. The result is a much, much smaller file. If alpha channel is indeed needed, then just revert the actual image to the one which I had previously uploaded (around 480 KB).)
10:48, 16 July 20071,962×1,374 (488 KB)Nihad Hamzic (Further reduced image size by losslessly optimising PNG compression type. This image's color domain could be reduced to 8-bit if alpha channel was removed, resulting in enormous image size reducion. Is alpha channel really needed here?)
19:27, 31 October 20061,962×1,374 (624 KB)MapMaster (Smaller, with some corrections and improvements)
15:17, 21 October 20061,959×1,398 (603 KB)MapMaster (Improved version)
21:35, 19 October 20061,961×1,405 (602 KB)MapMaster (I corrected the "Huns" route on this map, and am attempting to uploaded a 50% smaller version (Kbyte-wise).)
01:35, 2 October 20063,948×2,827 (1.28 MB)MapMaster (uploaded improved map)
18:27, 1 October 20063,944×2,814 (1.04 MB)MapMaster (Map of the "barbarian" invasions of the Roman Empire)