This venerable map of Europe in 526 A.D. is from the Perry-Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at Austin.
Byzantium - East Roman Empire in the map - is still ruling Greece and Macedonia in Europe, Near East and Egypt in north-Africa.
But alas, the West Roman Empire is no more!
Instead, Ostrogoths are ruling Italy from Ravenna with a big chunk of the Balkans - Kingdom of the East Goths in the map.
Goths are also ruling northern Mediterranean coast of Septimia in modern Southern France and Visigoths rule the Iberian peninsula - Kingdom of West Goths in the map. (Except for the mountainous region in NE Spain, Galicia and Basque country, Azuria, areas that also the Umayyad Muslims and Berbers were unable to conquer.)
To the north and north east of the regions of Goth ruled areas were Germanic and Slavic people.
Franks have established at this time their first kingdom in areas that today belong to modern France with Burgundians to the SW.
Vandals have a kingdom in North Africa in areas that today reach from Morocco and Algers to Libya and Tunis with Carthage as their capital. From there they have conquered Sicily and Corsica.
Rex Regum
Of great interest to us in this valuable map of world history is the fact that the key players in the areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea at 526 are all Christians!
Christ the King rules in the hearts of these people.
Yes, even the Vandals were Christians.
Some of the Christians were Arians, some Catholic, some Donatians, some Orthodox, some Chalcedonians, some Monophysitists - true! - but all these Christians were under the divine rule of Jesus Christ, the King.
And many of them are therefore going to live forever with Him!
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