Historical place profile

Cures

Cures (also Cures Sabini) was a Sabine city in the Tiber River valley along the Via Salaria. The Romans conquered Cures in 290 B.C. under M'. Curius Dentatus and granted it status as a municipium in the tribus Sergia.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:413114
Catalogue ID
pleiades:413114
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
42.180270, 12.685440
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Cures (also Cures Sabini) was a Sabine city in the Tiber River valley along the Via Salaria. The Romans conquered Cures in 290 B.C. under M'. Curius Dentatus and granted it status as a municipium in the tribus Sergia.

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 D4 Cures

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