Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Loseby, R. Häussler Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Loseby, R. Häussler Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 23, 2025 01:53 PM
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History
The fourth century B.C. capital of the Ingauni Ligures sided with Carthage during the Punic War but was reduced by Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus in 181 B.C. A treaty was struck with Rome; the city received Roman citizenship in 45 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157803
44.0484, 8.21493
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 6085 (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Albenga (Italian, modern)
- Albingaunum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ἀλβίγγαυνον (Albingaunum: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Album Ingaunum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- oppidum Album Ingaunum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum connection Ingauni (unspecified date range)
- Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum connection Via Julia Augusta (unspecified date range)
- Merula (river) connection Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum (unspecified date range)
- Roman amphitheater at Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum located at Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum (unspecified date range)
- funeral monuments of the Via Iulia Augusta located at Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 16 F1 Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 295,5 Albingauno
- ItMiller 236 Albingauno
- New Pauly Album Ingaunum (R. Pera)
- RE Album Ingaunum
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) ÁLBIUM INGAUNUM
- TIR Mediolanum, Aventicum-Brigantium 22, 77
- TrecEnc Spadea Noviero, G. 1994. "ALBENGA." In Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica
- Wikipedia (English) Albenga
- Wikipedia (Italian) Centro storico di Albenga
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 16 F1 Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Albenga ITL
S. Loseby, R. Häussler, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, and Tom Elliott, 'Album Ingaunum/Albingaunum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157803> [accessed: 08 December 2025]
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