Historical place profile
Sena Gallica
Senonian Gauls founded Sena Gallica at the mouth of the Misa River in the fourth century B.C. This place became the site of Rome's earliest colony on the Adriatic seaboard before 280 B.C. Pompeius Magnus destroyed the city in 82 B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413310
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413310
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 43.714978, 13.217990
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Senonian Gauls founded Sena Gallica at the mouth of the Misa River in the fourth century B.C. This place became the site of Rome's earliest colony on the Adriatic seaboard before 280 B.C. Pompeius Magnus destroyed the city in 82 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 42 E1 Sena Gallica
Source and reuse
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Research path
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