Historical place profile
Aecae
An ancient town of Apulia that in legend was reported to have been founded by Diomedes. In the third century B.C. the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus captured the town after the battle of Cannae.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:442450
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:442450
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.361189, 15.308894
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient town of Apulia that in legend was reported to have been founded by Diomedes. In the third century B.C. the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus captured the town after the battle of Cannae.
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 45 B2 Aecae
Source and reuse
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Research path
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