Historical place profile
Hydruntum/Hydrous
A Greek city at the easternmost point of the Italian peninsula that sided against Rome in both the Pyrrhic and Hannibalic wars. In the time of the Roman Empire the city was located in the province of Calabria and was an embarkation point for ships leaving for Apollonia across the Adriatic Sea.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:442615
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:442615
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.145851, 18.491084
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Greek city at the easternmost point of the Italian peninsula that sided against Rome in both the Pyrrhic and Hannibalic wars. In the time of the Roman Empire the city was located in the province of Calabria and was an embarkation point for ships leaving for Apollonia across the Adriatic Sea.
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 45 H4 Hydruntum/Hydrous
Source and reuse
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Research path
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