Historical place profile
Castro dei Volsci
Castro dei Volsci is an Italian comune located in the province of Frosinone. Its name - Castro dei Volsci - dates only from 1816. There is evidence for pre-Roman and Roman settlement in the area, including the polygonal masonry circuit of fortifications on nearby Montenero.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:432770
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:432770
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 41.509064, 13.406575
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Castro dei Volsci is an Italian comune located in the province of Frosinone. Its name - Castro dei Volsci - dates only from 1816. There is evidence for pre-Roman and Roman settlement in the area, including the polygonal masonry circuit of fortifications on nearby Montenero.
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 44 D3 Castro dei Volsci
Source and reuse
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Research path
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