Historical place profile
Santa Filitica
A Roman villa and subsequent Vandal-era and, following a period of abandonment, Byzantine-era village, located on the northwest Sardinian coast in the northern part of the modern municipal territory of Sorso. Pre-modern names for the site are unknown.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:472022
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:472022
- Place type
- settlement, villa
- Coordinates
- 40.871883, 8.629109
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Roman villa and subsequent Vandal-era and, following a period of abandonment, Byzantine-era village, located on the northwest Sardinian coast in the northern part of the modern municipal territory of Sorso. Pre-modern names for the site are 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 48 A2 Sorso
Source and reuse
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Research path
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