Historical place profile

Iuvanum

A Roman municipium founded in 87 BC after the Social War, Iuvanum sits on the site of a pre-existing Samnite settlement that occupies an upland plateau.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:432887
Catalogue ID
pleiades:432887
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
41.997709, 14.249604
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

A Roman municipium founded in 87 BC after the Social War, Iuvanum sits on the site of a pre-existing Samnite settlement that occupies an upland plateau.

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 F1 Iuvanum

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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