Historical place profile
Portus Veneris
A Roman maritime community that may derive its name from a local sanctuary of Venus, Portus Veneris served as the base of the Byzantine fleet until it was destroyed in A.D. 643.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:403262
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:403262
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 44.048291, 9.832829
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Roman maritime community that may derive its name from a local sanctuary of Venus, Portus Veneris served as the base of the Byzantine fleet until it was destroyed in A.D. 643.
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 41 B1 Portus Veneris
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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