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Velia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Tom Elliott

Last modified Mar 04, 2025 10:51 PM — History

The Velia, no longer extant, was a spur stretching from the north side of the Palatine Hill toward the Oppian Hill.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157710058

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8908553389, 12.4897033678

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Velia (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Οὐέλια (Velia: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Velia makes connections with:

Velia located at Roma (unspecified date range)

Velia receives connections from:

Domus Valerii (Velia) located on Velia (unspecified date range)
Shrine of Mutunus Tutunus located on Velia (unspecified date range)
Templum Veneris et Romae located on Velia (unspecified date range)
Vica Pota located on Velia (unspecified date range)

Place type:
hill

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Velia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157710058> [accessed: 13 February 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157710058 |title=Places: 157710058 (Velia) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=February 13, 2026 6:22 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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