Historical place profile
Amiternum
Amiternum was an ancient settlement of the Sabines that Rome captured in 293 BC. The settlement was situated at the intersection of four Roman roads: the Via Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova, and the two branches of the Via Salaria. The historian Sallust was born at Amiternum in 86 B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413013
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413013
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.400467, 13.306221
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Amiternum was an ancient settlement of the Sabines that Rome captured in 293 BC. The settlement was situated at the intersection of four Roman roads: the Via Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova, and the two branches of the Via Salaria. The historian Sallust was born at Amiternum in 86 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 42 E4 Amiternum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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