Historical place profile
Vatl/Vetulonia
The Etruscan Vatluna resisted Rome's influence in the seventh century BCE, although the city may have been the source of Rome's adoption of the curule chair and the fasces.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:403291
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:403291
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.859455, 10.972109
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The Etruscan Vatluna resisted Rome's influence in the seventh century BCE, although the city may have been the source of Rome's adoption of the curule chair and the fasces.
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 41 D4 Vatl/Vetulonia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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