Historical place profile
Tergeste
Tergeste (the modern Trieste) was first a vicus dependent on Aquileia (ca. 100 BC) and later became a colony under Caesar, sometime before 52 B.C. In the Augustan reorganization of Italy, the city was part of the Decima Regio and then of Venetia et Histria. By Late Antiquity, it had become a bishopric.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:187578
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:187578
- Place type
- fort, settlement, urban, vicus
- Coordinates
- 45.649148, 13.771700
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tergeste (the modern Trieste) was first a vicus dependent on Aquileia (ca. 100 BC) and later became a colony under Caesar, sometime before 52 B.C. In the Augustan reorganization of Italy, the city was part of the Decima Regio and then of Venetia et Histria. By Late Antiquity, it had become a bishopric.
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 19 F4 Tergeste
Source and reuse
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Research path
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