Historical place profile

Carreum Potentia

Carreum Potentia (Regio IX) is the site of a Roman colony, perhaps planted during the Gracchan period, on a site that preserves, perhaps, its pre-Roman name.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:383611
Catalogue ID
pleiades:383611
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
45.011441, 7.822544
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Carreum Potentia (Regio IX) is the site of a Roman colony, perhaps planted during the Gracchan period, on a site that preserves, perhaps, its pre-Roman name.

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 B3 Carreum Potentia

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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