Historical place profile
Collatia
Collatia was an ancient city of Latium located between Gabii and the Anio River. A colony of Alba Longa, Collatia was one of the most ancient cities of Latium. Subjugated by Rome under the Tarquins, Collatia would decline during the Republican period and numbers among the lost Latin cities by the accounting of Pliny the Elder.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:422898
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:422898
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.925248, 12.667077
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Collatia was an ancient city of Latium located between Gabii and the Anio River. A colony of Alba Longa, Collatia was one of the most ancient cities of Latium. Subjugated by Rome under the Tarquins, Collatia would decline during the Republican period and numbers among the lost Latin cities by the accounting of Pliny the Elder.
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 43 C2 Collatia
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