ΑALEXANDERAN ATLAS OF CONQUEST
THE ANCIENT WORLD / 334–323 BCE
THE EXPEDITION ON EARTHEarth · 334–323 BCE
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Macedonian kingdom & allies Indian kingdoms & republics Alexander Craterus Nearchus⚔ Battle · click to explore Siege · click to explore▷ Opis · watch speech
FOLLOW THE EXPEDITION334–323 BCE
The complete journey
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DRAG TO ROTATE · SCROLL TO ZOOMReference-map routes · geographic globe
A NOTE ON THE MAP

History leaves a trail.
Not always a precise one.

The visible landmarks follow the supplied conquest map, from Macedonia to the Hyphasis and along the mapped return. Revisited places appear again during playback, while the landmark list keeps one entry per location.

The globe and the route

The globe restores the ancient-region map and its geographic proportions. The red route is hand-traced from the supplied MacedonEmpire map, with detailed bends and separately identified fleet and auxiliary routes. It uses the same landmarks and separate campaign segments; no old itinerary detours have been reintroduced. Globe projection changes how the route appears across the curved surface.

User-supplied reference map of Alexander’s empire, 334–323 BCE

Supplied reference · original aspect ratio preserved. Click to inspect the full map.

How to explore

Drag to rotate; scroll, pinch or use the buttons to zoom. Crossed swords open battles in this tab. Only reference-map landmarks appear as stops. The reference image is available above for comparison. Separate regional strokes are not connected with invented marching lines. The full battle archive remains accessible from Battles.

Lines are approximate marching routes, not surveyed tracks. Nearchus’s voyage is blue and dashed; Craterus’s separate return is ochre and dashed. Neither is presented as Alexander’s personal route. The final mapped return line ends at Susa in 324 BCE. A separate skull marker and final story entry mark Alexander’s death at Babylon in 323 BCE; no unrecorded route is drawn between these events.

Territory shading

Gold follows the outer territorial shading of the supplied MacedonEmpire map, hand-digitized and registered to geographic landmarks. Dashed internal lines remain schematic satrapy guides. This static overview is not a year-by-year territorial reconstruction; control varied within regions.

Geography & sources

Ancient regional names replace modern countries. Satrapal divisions are schematic orientation guides, not a definitive territorial reconstruction. The Natural Earth coastline is a modern geographic foundation; ancient shorelines and river mouths could differ.

The supplied itinerary cites Arrian and modern topographic studies, but its numbered references do not include a bibliography. Individual identifications have not all been independently verified.

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