Historical place profile

Burnum

From ca. 6 B.C. Burnum was the site of a Roman legionary camp (Legio XI; Legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis - Legio IIII Flavia Felix and Legio VIII Augusta), as well as an auxiliary camp. By the Hadrianic period it had become the civil settlement of Municipium Burnistarum.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:197184
Catalogue ID
pleiades:197184
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
44.018914, 16.025622
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

From ca. 6 B.C. Burnum was the site of a Roman legionary camp (Legio XI; Legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis - Legio IIII Flavia Felix and Legio VIII Augusta), as well as an auxiliary camp. By the Hadrianic period it had become the civil settlement of Municipium Burnistarum.

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 20 C5 Burnum

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