Early Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean

AD33: Christianity at the death of Christ
AD112: Christianity at the time of Pliny's Letter to Trajan

AD33: Christianity at the death of Christ

Map showing the spread of Christianity at the death of Christ AD 33

This map shows Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa at the start of AD33. It shows a small number of Christians grouped around Jerusalem and Antioch at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean.

AD112: Christianity at the time of Pliny's Letter to Trajan

Map showing the spread of Christianity at the time of Pliny's Letter to Trajan, AD 112

The AD 112 map shows the spread of Christianity at the time of the persecution of Christians by Pliny in Bithynia in North-Western Asia Minor. It marks cities where Christian communities are attested by this date, from the New Testament and the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch.

This key indicates the names of the cities numbered on the map above.

1. Puteoli	2. Neapolis	3. Berroia	4. Thessalonica
5. Philippi	6. Corinth	7. Cenchreae	8. Athens
9. Pergamum	10. Sardis	11. Symrna	12. Thyatira
13. Magnesia	14. Tralles	15. Philadelphia	16. Hierapolis
17. Laodicea	18. Colossae	19. Amastris	20. Ancyra
21. Antioch of Pisidia	22. Iconium	23. Lystra	24. Derbe
25. Damascus	26. Tyre	27. Caesarea	28. Diocaesarea
29. Joppa	30. Pella	31. Lydda