Home›Categories›RegionsCategoriesRegionsCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Regions." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/categories/regions.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Regions. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/categories/regionsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-regions, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Regions}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/categories/regions}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe geographic and cultural regions the Atlas's traditions come from, used to place a system in the world rather than to define it, ranging in scale from a subcontinent to a single river valley. Each entry names the region, its modern equivalent where the historical name differs, and what arose there. Traditions travel and blend along trade routes, pilgrimage circuits and migrations, carrying practices and doctrines far from where they began, so a region entry marks a documented point of origin or concentration rather than a fixed boundary a tradition stays inside.FactsLearn MoreCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedGeographic and cultural areas in which the atlas's traditions arose, used to place a system in the world rather than to define it. A region is not a religion: no region here holds only one tradition, and regions are themselves shaped by pilgrimage, trade and conquest rather than being neutral containers - religious practice makes regions as much as regions produce religions. 1Learn MoreThe Places the Traditions Come From This category holds the geographic and cultural regions in which the traditions recorded here arose, used to place a system in the world rather than to define it. A region entry names the area, gives its modern equivalent where the historical name differs, and describes what arose there: the pantheons, texts, practices and figures the place gave rise to. Regions are containers of context. Mesopotamia, the Nile valley, the Indus and Ganges plains, Greece, Scandinavia, Mesoamerica and West Africa each nurtured distinctive religious worlds, and knowing the setting helps make sense of the systems that grew in it.Movement and Exchange Traditions travel, and regions are meeting-points as much as origins. Ideas, gods and techniques moved along trade and conquest routes (Babylonian astronomy into Greece, Greek philosophy into the Islamic world and back into Europe, Buddhism across Asia), and a region's religious life is usually a layered product of exchange rather than a sealed local growth. The entries note these movements where they matter, so a region reads not as an isolated box but as a node in a larger web of contact, from which the more specific categories here (deities, sites, texts), can be entered.Cross-Tradition ConnectionsEntries in This CategoryAksum, Regions Well-attested Amazonia, Regions Well-attested Anatolia and Asia Minor, Regions Well-attested Arabia, Regions Well-attested Assam, Regions Well-attested Assyria, Regions Well-attested Babylonia, Regions Well-attested Bali, Regions Well-attested Bengal, Regions Well-attested Bihar, Regions Well-attested Borneo, Regions Well-attested Britain, Regions Well-attested British Isles, Regions Well-attested British Isles and Gaul, Regions Well-attested Buganda, Regions Well-attested Canaan, Regions Well-attested Castile, Regions Well-attested Caucasus, Regions Well-attested Central Africa, Regions Well-attested Central Asia, Regions Well-attested Central Asian Steppe, Regions Well-attested Central Europe, Regions Well-attested China, Regions Well-attested Congo, Regions Well-attested Deccan, Regions Well-attested East Africa, Regions Well-attested East Asia, Regions Well-attested Eastern Europe, Regions Well-attested Egypt, Regions Well-attested England, Regions Well-attested Etruria, Regions Well-attested Galilee, Regions Well-attested Global (Cross-Cultural), Regions Well-attested Greece, Regions Well-attested Guizhou, Regions Well-attested Gujarat, Regions Well-attested Himalayas, Regions Well-attested Holy Land, Regions Well-attested Iberia, Regions Well-attested Iberia and Southern France, Regions Well-attested Indian Subcontinent, Regions Well-attested Indus Valley, Regions Well-attested Italy, Regions Well-attested Ituri, Regions Well-attested Japan, Regions Well-attested Judea, Regions Well-attested Karnataka, Regions Well-attested Kashmir, Regions Well-attested Kerala, Regions Well-attested Korea, Regions Well-attested Lake Victoria, Regions Well-attested Latium, Regions Well-attested Luzon, Regions Well-attested Macedonia, Regions Well-attested Maharashtra, Regions Well-attested Manipur, Regions Well-attested Meghalaya, Regions Well-attested Mesoamerica, Regions Well-attested Mesopotamia, Regions Well-attested Micronesia, Regions Well-attested Moab, Regions Well-attested Near East, Regions Well-attested North Africa, Regions Well-attested North America, Regions Well-attested North China Plain, Regions Well-attested Oceania and Australia, Regions Well-attested Orkney, Regions Well-attested Persia, Regions Well-attested Polynesia, Regions Well-attested Provence, Regions Well-attested Punjab, Regions Well-attested Rajasthan, Regions Well-attested Rhineland, Regions Well-attested Ryukyu Islands, Regions Well-attested Saint-Domingue, Regions Well-attested Salt Lake Valley, Regions Well-attested Samaria, Regions Well-attested Scandinavia, Regions Well-attested Scotland, Regions Well-attested Siberia, Regions Well-attested Sichuan, Regions Well-attested Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Regions Well-attested Southeast Asia, Regions Well-attested Southern Africa, Regions Well-attested Sulawesi, Regions Well-attested Sumer, Regions Well-attested Tamil Nadu, Regions Well-attested The Andes, Regions Well-attested The Caribbean, Regions Well-attested The Guianas, Regions Well-attested The Levant, Regions Well-attested The Southern Cone, Regions Well-attested Tibet, Regions Well-attested Uttar Pradesh, Regions Well-attested Uttarakhand, Regions Well-attested Valley of Mexico, Regions Well-attested West Africa, Regions Well-attested West Africa and the Caribbean, Regions Well-attested West Bank, Regions Well-attested Western Europe, Regions Well-attested Western Mexico, Regions Well-attested White Nile, Regions Well-attested Yorubaland, Regions Well-attested Yucatan, Regions Well-attested Yunnan, Regions Well-attested Sources1. Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in Indiatier 1Anne Feldhaus, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003IntroductionDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year