Historical place profile
Sutrium
An ancient settlement along the line of what would become the Roman Via Cassia and described by Livy, together with Nepet, as one of the keys to Etruria. A Latin colony was founded at the site after the fall of Veii.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413328
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413328
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.242794, 12.220462
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement along the line of what would become the Roman Via Cassia and described by Livy, together with Nepet, as one of the keys to Etruria. A Latin colony was founded at the site after the fall of Veii.
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 Sutrium
Source and reuse
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Research path
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