Historical place profile
Col. Caesaraugusta
Colonia Caesaraugusta (present-day Zaragoza, Spain) was established as a planned Roman colony of the Augustan period (ca. 14 BCE). Military veterans of the Cantabrian wars were settled there.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:246344
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:246344
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.654185, -0.877269
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Colonia Caesaraugusta (present-day Zaragoza, Spain) was established as a planned Roman colony of the Augustan period (ca. 14 BCE). Military veterans of the Cantabrian wars were settled there.
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 25 E4 Col. Caesaraugusta
Source and reuse
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Research path
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