Historical place profile

Aurelium Cananefatium/Forum Hadriani

Aurelium Cananefatium/Forum Hadriani (modern Voorburg) was the northernmost Roman city on the European continent. It was destroyed ca. AD 270.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:98918
Catalogue ID
pleiades:98918
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
52.060219, 4.348673
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Aurelium Cananefatium/Forum Hadriani (modern Voorburg) was the northernmost Roman city on the European continent. It was destroyed ca. AD 270.

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 10 A4 Aurelium Cananefatium/Forum Hadriani

Source and reuse

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Research path

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