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Osca/Urbs Victrix

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Nov 02, 2023 09:23 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Osca/Urbs Victrix (modern Huesca) was an Iberian oppidum and capital of the Ilergetes that later became a Roman colony.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246539

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.1394475, -0.407326

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 892 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Huesca (modern)
- Osca (330 BC - AD 640)
- Urbs Victrix (330 BC - AD 640)

Osca/Urbs Victrix makes connections with:

None

Osca/Urbs Victrix receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 25 E3 Osca/Urbs Victrix

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Huesca

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Suggested citation:
H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Osca/Urbs Victrix: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246539> [accessed: 26 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246539 |title=Places: 246539 (Osca/Urbs Victrix) |author=Sivan, H., S. Keay, R. Mathisen |accessdate=April 26, 2024 11:53 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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