Historical place profile

Bergomum

Originally a center of the archaic Golasecca culture, Bergomum became a municipium of the tribus Voturia. In 452, Attila captured and razed the city.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:383589
Catalogue ID
pleiades:383589
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
45.694909, 9.669949
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Originally a center of the archaic Golasecca culture, Bergomum became a municipium of the tribus Voturia. In 452, Attila captured and razed the city.

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 F2 Bergomum

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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