Historical place profile
Velia/Elea
The ancient city of Elea / Velia was said to have been founded by Phocaean Greeks in the sixth century B.C. and then became an ally of Rome in the third century B.C.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:452488
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:452488
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.160501, 15.156157
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The ancient city of Elea / Velia was said to have been founded by Phocaean Greeks in the sixth century B.C. and then became an ally of Rome in the third century B.C.
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 46 B1 Velia/Elea
Source and reuse
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Research path
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