A map showing the cities and towns affected by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The general shape of the ash and cinder fall (see w:en:pyroclast) is shown by the dark area to the southeast of Mt Vesuvius. (P.S. It seems strange to show the modern day English names for the two bodies of water - I am open to suggestions).
This map shows present day coast lines and uses the Mercator projection (although that is not important on a map of this scale). North is, as usual, at the top of the map.
This map is intended to show the general distribution of (airborne) ash punice, and other particles. I built the map from descriptions of the event as well as these maps:
Luongo, Giuseppe; Perrotta, Annamaria; Scarpati, Claudio;De Carolis, Ernesto;Patricelli, Giovanni;Ciarallo, Annamaria (2003) "Impact of the AD 79 explosive eruption on Pompeii" in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research v126 pp. 169-200.
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Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) is an ancient Roman town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. ... For other uses, see Pompeii (disambiguation). ... The city of Stabiae was at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, and therefore was one of the communities damaged by its eruption in 79 AD. Some few people got away from the initial lava, and told others of the coming erruption, but succumbed to the ash as it started to... Oplontis was a town near Pompeii, Italy. ... Misemen is the site of an ancient port in Campania, in southern Italy. ...
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