Historical place profile

Mursa

Mursa was an ancient city on the Drava River and the site of a colonia Aelia Mursa, likely founded by Hadrian in AD 133. Traces of Neolithic and Iron Age cultures have also been discovered at the site.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:197389
Catalogue ID
pleiades:197389
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
45.560018, 18.675749
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Mursa was an ancient city on the Drava River and the site of a colonia Aelia Mursa, likely founded by Hadrian in AD 133. Traces of Neolithic and Iron Age cultures have also been discovered at the site.

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 20 F4 Mursa

Source and reuse

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Research path

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