Historical place profile

Asisium

A Roman settlement built atop an earlier Umbrian one on a western foothill of the Apennines, Asisium received municipal status and was assigned to the Tribus Sergia. Totila destroyed most of the city in A.D. 545.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:413037
Catalogue ID
pleiades:413037
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
43.070619, 12.618957
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A Roman settlement built atop an earlier Umbrian one on a western foothill of the Apennines, Asisium received municipal status and was assigned to the Tribus Sergia. Totila destroyed most of the city in A.D. 545.

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 D2 Asisium

Source and reuse

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Research path

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