Historical place profile
Toletum
Ancient Toletum, located on the Tagus River, was the main settlement of the Carpetani. The Romans captured the city in 193 B.C. In 507, Toletum became the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, and in 711 it fell to Muslim invaders. Alfonso VI of León and Castile recaptured the city in 1085.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:266066
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:266066
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.856680, -4.024491
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Ancient Toletum, located on the Tagus River, was the main settlement of the Carpetani. The Romans captured the city in 193 B.C. In 507, Toletum became the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, and in 711 it fell to Muslim invaders. Alfonso VI of León and Castile recaptured the city in 1085.
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 27 A2 Toletum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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