Augusta Praetoria
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi
Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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History
Augusta Praetoria (modern Aosta) was a settlement of the Salassi conquered by Rome in 25 B.C. From 24 B.C. a colony of 3,000 Roman military veterans occupied the city of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum and it became the capital of the province Alpes Graies from 11 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383579
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- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 6301 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Aosta (modern)
- Augusta Praetoria (30 BC - AD 640)
- Augusta Praetoria Salassorum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Augusta Praetoria located on Via Francigena (AD 300 - AD 1453)
- Arch of Augustus at Aosta located at Augusta Praetoria (unspecified date range)
- Ponte di Pietra connection Augusta Praetoria (unspecified date range)
- Porta Praetoria at Aosta located at Augusta Praetoria (unspecified date range)
- Roman amphitheater at Aosta located at Augusta Praetoria (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Aosta located at Augusta Praetoria (unspecified date range)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 39 A2 Augusta Praetoria
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Aosta.
After the fall of the western empire, Aosta was retaken by Pepin the Short and, under Charlemagne, became an important point on the Via Francigena on its course from Aachen to Italy.
M. Pearce, P. Tozzi, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Augusta Praetoria: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383579> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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