Historical place profile

Apta Iulia

Once the most important town of the Gallic Vulgientes, Romans destroyed the site ca. 125 BC and Iulius Caesar re-founded it as Apta Iulia.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:147993
Catalogue ID
pleiades:147993
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
43.876571, 5.393684
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Once the most important town of the Gallic Vulgientes, Romans destroyed the site ca. 125 BC and Iulius Caesar re-founded it as Apta Iulia.

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 15 E2 Apta Iulia

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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