Historical place profile

San Giovenale

The archaeological remains of an Etruscan settlement were discovered at San Giovenale, close to Blera, Italy, by the Swedish Institute at Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. The ancient name of the site is unknown.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:413298
Catalogue ID
pleiades:413298
Place type
acropolis, archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
42.224373, 11.999337
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

The archaeological remains of an Etruscan settlement were discovered at San Giovenale, close to Blera, Italy, by the Swedish Institute at Rome in the 1950s and 1960s. The ancient name of the site is unknown.

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 42 C4 S. Giovenale

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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