Historical place profile
Sora
An ancient city of Latium located in the valley of the Liris River that likely had Volscian origins. The Romans captured the city in 345 BCE and later established a colony there in 303 BCE after the Second Samnite War.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:433126
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:433126
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 41.720336, 13.613958
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city of Latium located in the valley of the Liris River that likely had Volscian origins. The Romans captured the city in 345 BCE and later established a colony there in 303 BCE after the Second Samnite War.
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 44 E2 Sora
Source and reuse
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Research path
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