Historical place profile
Caralis
A city with its origins in a Phoenician settlement of the seventh century BC, Caralis comes under Roman control in 238 BC during the Punic Wars. Florus refers to it as urbs urbinum, or capital of Sardinia
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:471899
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:471899
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.214886, 9.109522
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A city with its origins in a Phoenician settlement of the seventh century BC, Caralis comes under Roman control in 238 BC during the Punic Wars. Florus refers to it as urbs urbinum, or capital of Sardinia
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 48 B3 Caralis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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