Historical place profile
Segestica/Siscia
Segestica/Siscia is an Iron Age settlement recorded by Strabo. It was located at the confluence of three rivers and was used as a staging area for a campaign against the Dacians.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:197504
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:197504
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 45.483168, 16.371388
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Segestica/Siscia is an Iron Age settlement recorded by Strabo. It was located at the confluence of three rivers and was used as a staging area for a campaign against the Dacians.
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 20 D4 Segestica/Siscia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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