Historical place profile
Complutum
Complutum (modern Alcalá de Henares in Spain) was an ancient oppidum founded in the first century CE and largely re-fashioned in the third century.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:246352
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:246352
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.473172, -3.386951
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Complutum (modern Alcalá de Henares in Spain) was an ancient oppidum founded in the first century CE and largely re-fashioned in the third century.
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 B5 Complutum
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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