The only copy of the map, the construction of which began in the Roman period between the first and third centuries AD, was found in Colmar (France) in 1265. Today it is preserved in the Austrian (Vienna) State Library. Since it coincided with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the founding of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire at that time, Constantinople was mapped as the most important center in the world, equivalent to Rome. Antiochia (Antakya) is shown on the map as the third largest c ...