Historical place profile
Augusta Praetoria
Augusta Praetoria (modern Aosta) was a settlement of the Salassi conquered by Rome in 25 B.C. From 24 B.C. a colony of 3,000 Roman military veterans occupied the city of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum and it became the capital of the province Alpes Graies from 11 B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:383579
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:383579
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 45.737444, 7.316171
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Augusta Praetoria (modern Aosta) was a settlement of the Salassi conquered by Rome in 25 B.C. From 24 B.C. a colony of 3,000 Roman military veterans occupied the city of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum and it became the capital of the province Alpes Graies from 11 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 39 A2 Augusta Praetoria
Source and reuse
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