Historical place profile

Cantiano

An ancient place at modern Cantiano may have stood along the line of a branch of the Via Flaminia. The so-called "Sassoferrato milestone" was located about one mile from Cantiano (CIL 6629).

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:104638958
Catalogue ID
pleiades:104638958
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
43.474309, 12.628815
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

An ancient place at modern Cantiano may have stood along the line of a branch of the Via Flaminia. The so-called "Sassoferrato milestone" was located about one mile from Cantiano (CIL 6629).

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: Pleiades

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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