Historical place profile
Praeneste
An ancient city of central Italy, the eighth and seventh century B.C. origins of which demonstrate high-level trade contact with the Eastern Mediterranean world. The city withdrew from the Latin League (499 B.C.) and opposed Rome in the Latin war; Cincinnatus eventually subdued Praeneste. Sulla founded a new colony there in the first century B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:423013
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:423013
- Place type
- city-wall, sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.839484, 12.892308
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city of central Italy, the eighth and seventh century B.C. origins of which demonstrate high-level trade contact with the Eastern Mediterranean world. The city withdrew from the Latin League (499 B.C.) and opposed Rome in the Latin war; Cincinnatus eventually subdued Praeneste. Sulla founded a new colony there in the first century B.C.
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 43 D2 Praeneste
Source and reuse
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Research path
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