Historical place profile
Gilly-sur-Isère
An archaeologically attested "agglomération romaine" (evidently equipped with port and warehouse facilities) at modern Gilly on the Isere river in France (about 4km downriver from Albertville), appears to have been an extension or adjunct of the Roman road station and toll house of Ad Publicanos, thought to have been located in the area.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:167783
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:167783
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern, villa
- Coordinates
- 45.658378, 6.349861
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An archaeologically attested "agglomération romaine" (evidently equipped with port and warehouse facilities) at modern Gilly on the Isere river in France (about 4km downriver from Albertville), appears to have been an extension or adjunct of the Roman road station and toll house of Ad Publicanos, thought to have been located in the area.
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 17 G2 Gilly-sur-Isère
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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