Historical place profile

Vejano

Vejano, located in the Province of Viterbo, is located on the Mignone river approximately 60 km northwest of Rome. While the most visible monument on the site today is the fifteenth century castle known as "La Rocca", the site has a long settlement history reaching back to the Bronze Age.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:765136701
Catalogue ID
pleiades:765136701
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
42.216757, 12.095202
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Vejano, located in the Province of Viterbo, is located on the Mignone river approximately 60 km northwest of Rome. While the most visible monument on the site today is the fifteenth century castle known as "La Rocca", the site has a long settlement history reaching back to the Bronze Age.

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: Pleiades

Source and reuse

This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.

Research path

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