Historical place profile
Mirobriga
Miróbriga (also known as Mirobriga Celticorum) is an ancient Roman town located near the village Santiago do Cacém, Portugal. The site shows evidence of Iron Age occupation beginning in the ninth century B.C. and continuing through to the time of the Roman colonization of Lusitania.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:256303
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:256303
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.009730, -8.684075
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Miróbriga (also known as Mirobriga Celticorum) is an ancient Roman town located near the village Santiago do Cacém, Portugal. The site shows evidence of Iron Age occupation beginning in the ninth century B.C. and continuing through to the time of the Roman colonization of Lusitania.
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 26 B4 Mirobriga
Source and reuse
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Research path
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