Vesontio
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G.D. Woolf
Creators: G.D. Woolf
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 04, 2024 04:42 PM
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History
Vesontion (modern Besançon) is first mentioned by Caesar in his commentaries ca. 58 BC. It is situated on a tributary of the Saône river.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177657
47.2372405, 6.027924
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 15380 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Vesontio connection Dubis (river) (unspecified date range)
- Vesontio connection Germania Superior (unspecified date range)
- Vesontio connection Via Francigena (unspecified date range)
- Porte Noire (Besançon) located at Vesontio (unspecified date range)
- Square Castan at Besançon located at Vesontio (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 18 D2 Vesontio
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Besançon
G.D. Woolf, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Vesontio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/177657> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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