Historical place profile
Placentia
Placentia (modern Piacenza) was an ancient site with Gallic and Etruscan occupation before the Roman conquest of 218 B.C. The city persisted into Late Antiquity.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:383741
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:383741
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 45.052585, 9.697665
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Placentia (modern Piacenza) was an ancient site with Gallic and Etruscan occupation before the Roman conquest of 218 B.C. The city persisted into Late Antiquity.
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 F3 Placentia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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