Historical place profile
Mutina
Ancient Mutina (originally the Etruscan town Mutna) was first inhabited by Villanovans and later by Ligurians and the Gaulish Boii. The Boii sieged the city in 218 BC, and later Mutina was re-established as a Roman colony (183 BC). It was an important city and played a role in the civil wars during the last decades of the Roman Republic.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:383715
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:383715
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.647057, 10.925223
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ancient Mutina (originally the Etruscan town Mutna) was first inhabited by Villanovans and later by Ligurians and the Gaulish Boii. The Boii sieged the city in 218 BC, and later Mutina was re-established as a Roman colony (183 BC). It was an important city and played a role in the civil wars during the last decades of the Roman Republic.
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 39 H4 Mutina
Source and reuse
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Research path
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