Historical place profile
Felsina/Bononia
A city of the Po Plain with important cultural phases related to Etruscan, Celtic, and Roman culture. Important evidence for the Iron Age Villanovan culture has been found in Bononia and its vicinity. The Romans established a Latin colony of ca. 3000 settlers at Bononia in 189 BC. After changing hands several times following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Bologna became an important Medieval center.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:393421
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:393421
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.494574, 11.345547
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A city of the Po Plain with important cultural phases related to Etruscan, Celtic, and Roman culture. Important evidence for the Iron Age Villanovan culture has been found in Bononia and its vicinity. The Romans established a Latin colony of ca. 3000 settlers at Bononia in 189 BC. After changing hands several times following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Bologna became an important Medieval center.
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 40 A4 Felsina/Bononia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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