Kempraten
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H. Bender
Creators: H. Bender
Contributors:
G. Moosbauer, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, M. Puhane, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Talbert
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Jul 18, 2025 08:26 AM
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History
Archaeological remains of a Roman vicus have been discovered at modern Kempraten, which is located on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich in Switzerland's St. Gallen canton. Ninth-century CE and later sources provide Latin name variants that scholars think indicate the name of the community in the Roman period may have been "Centum Prata", but no contemporary Roman texts have yet been identified that transmit this name.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187438
47.234765, 8.818089
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 8895 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Less than certain: Centum Prata (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Kempraten (German, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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station (road or coastal), vicus
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 19 A2 Kempraten
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kempraten, SWI
H. Bender, G. Moosbauer, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, M. Puhane, Scott Vanderbilt, and R. Talbert, 'Kempraten: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/187438> [accessed: 16 December 2025]
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