Historical place profile

Ara Ubiorum/Col. Claudia Ara Agrippinensium

Ara Ubiorum/Col. Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne, Germany) was a key site of the Germanic Ubii that became a Roman colony in the first century AD. The city served as the capital of Germania Inferior.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:108751
Catalogue ID
pleiades:108751
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
50.940662, 6.959907
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Ara Ubiorum/Col. Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne, Germany) was a key site of the Germanic Ubii that became a Roman colony in the first century AD. The city served as the capital of Germania Inferior.

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 11 G2 Ara Ubiorum/Col. Claudia Ara Agrippinensium

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Research path

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