Historical place profile
Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum
The fourth century B.C. capital of the Ingauni Ligures sided with Carthage during the Punic War but was reduced by Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus in 181 B.C. A treaty was struck with Rome; the city received Roman citizenship in 45 B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:157803
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:157803
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.048400, 8.214930
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The fourth century B.C. capital of the Ingauni Ligures sided with Carthage during the Punic War but was reduced by Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus in 181 B.C. A treaty was struck with Rome; the city received Roman citizenship in 45 B.C.
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 16 F1 Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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