Historical place profile
Dikaiarcheia/Puteoli
A maritime city of Campania situated on the Phlegrean Peninsula. The settlement started as a Greek colony and became a Roman colony under the name Puteoli in 194 B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:432815
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:432815
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.825838, 14.121741
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A maritime city of Campania situated on the Phlegrean Peninsula. The settlement started as a Greek colony and became a Roman colony under the name Puteoli in 194 B.C.
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 44 F4 Dikaiarcheia/Puteoli
Source and reuse
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Research path
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