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I'm not 100% on precisely how, but I know that this map is innacurate on at least a couple of portions shaded as "territory of Rome". For example, the island comprising modern day Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland was never part of any Roman state. Additionally, I believe the territories in Mesopotamia were only temporarily held by Rome, but never constituted a long term portion of the Roman Empire (although this may have changed under the Byzantine Empire). Can we get a more accurate version of this image? Hiberniantears 19:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

There is probably another inaccuracy with the rhaetian limes, which on this map is shown as being part of the germanic limes (lying to the west of Regensburg, Germany); whereas the rhaetian limes on your map lies somewhere in modern day hungary/romania. This is probably wrong as rhaetia was used as a name for a region in south germany - and is still used to this day as a moniker for the swiss canton of graubünden (to the south of lake of constance). But I'm not absolutely sure. Nouly 19:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)