Historical place profile
Corfinium
Corfinium was the principal city of the Paeligni in the valley of the Aternus river. The site becomes the capital of the breakaway Italic groups that oppose Rome during the Social War.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413105
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413105
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.121989, 13.839047
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Corfinium was the principal city of the Paeligni in the valley of the Aternus river. The site becomes the capital of the breakaway Italic groups that oppose Rome during the Social War.
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 42 F4 Corfinium
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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