This research is concentrated on the study and analysis of Toponymy, in one hand, but more specifically, on the intrinsic geometric structure given in Geographia, parameterized by the arrays of spherical geographic coordinates of longitude and latitude assigned to points on the earth surface apparently known at Ptolemy's times. Research on Ptolemy's Geographia has started at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in the eighties, focused mainly, but not exclusively, on data related to territories which are now under the sovereignty of the modern Greek state. The list is organized in Tabulae which cor-respond to specific regions of the three known continents at that time, Africa, Asia and Europe. Claudius Ptolemy, in his Geographia, gives a list of geographic coordinates of spherical longitude and latitude of almost ten thousand point locations on the earth surface, as they were known at his times.
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