Historical place profile
Vettona
Vettona (modern Bettona) is an ancient settlement of Umbria located between Perusia and Mevania. Pliny the Elder lists it among the municipalities of Umbria, and it also numbered as one of the “xv Populi Umbriae".
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413377
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413377
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 43.013786, 12.485373
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Vettona (modern Bettona) is an ancient settlement of Umbria located between Perusia and Mevania. Pliny the Elder lists it among the municipalities of Umbria, and it also numbered as one of the “xv Populi Umbriae".
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 42 C2 Vettona
Source and reuse
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Research path
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