Historical place profile
Acrillae
A Greek colony founded in Sicily ca. 598 B.C., Acrillae was an important economic center. In 213 B.C., the Roman consul M. Claudius Marcellus fought an engagement against the Syracusans there.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:462069
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:462069
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.031932, 14.701747
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Greek colony founded in Sicily ca. 598 B.C., Acrillae was an important economic center. In 213 B.C., the Roman consul M. Claudius Marcellus fought an engagement against the Syracusans there.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 F4 Acrillae
Source and reuse
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Research path
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