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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2164306, member: 19463"]Surely no one does this? My Year 2 and 4 Domnas of Alexandria have the year three Caesarea between them? </p><p><br /></p><p>In all honesty, the only thing I really like about Eckhel is that it is well established. It is only Geographic by region and alphabetic within. There is no good and easy answer since few of us can tell which cities are where and could fill in a blank outline map with the names (for that matter few of us could do that with 50 states, 10 provinces and 3 territories??? or (insert here a number between 9 and infinity that applies those who live in the UK). Top that with how the divisions changed between 500 BC and whatever end date you collect and alphabetical starts looking good. Then when we deal with cities that changed names or spell differently according to who you read and I'm back to accepting Eckhel for lack of a better answer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2164306, member: 19463"]Surely no one does this? My Year 2 and 4 Domnas of Alexandria have the year three Caesarea between them? In all honesty, the only thing I really like about Eckhel is that it is well established. It is only Geographic by region and alphabetic within. There is no good and easy answer since few of us can tell which cities are where and could fill in a blank outline map with the names (for that matter few of us could do that with 50 states, 10 provinces and 3 territories??? or (insert here a number between 9 and infinity that applies those who live in the UK). Top that with how the divisions changed between 500 BC and whatever end date you collect and alphabetical starts looking good. Then when we deal with cities that changed names or spell differently according to who you read and I'm back to accepting Eckhel for lack of a better answer.[/QUOTE]
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