Historical place profile
Tolmo de Minateda
Tolmo de Minateda was an early Roman hilltop oppidum located in the municipal territory of modern Helin in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It was abandoned in the second century CE and then reoccupied in Late Antiquity (ca. 590 CE) as a Visigothic episcopal see during the Byzantine-Visigothic war. It was finally abandoned in the ninth century, and the population was resettled in Murcia, a new foundation. Tolmo de Minateda has been tentatively identified with the attested placename Ilounon.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:265928
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:265928
- Place type
- acropolis, archaeological-site, architecturalcomplex, cistern, city-gate, city-wall, forum, settlement, townhouse
- Coordinates
- 38.476784, -1.607095
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tolmo de Minateda was an early Roman hilltop oppidum located in the municipal territory of modern Helin in the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It was abandoned in the second century CE and then reoccupied in Late Antiquity (ca. 590 CE) as a Visigothic episcopal see during the Byzantine-Visigothic war. It was finally abandoned in the ninth century, and the population was resettled in Murcia, a new foundation. Tolmo de Minateda has been tentatively identified with the attested placename Ilounon.
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 D3 Ilounon?
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