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Comum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi

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

Last modified Jun 07, 2018 07:18 PM — History

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

Comum (modern Como) was a key city of regio XI of ancient Italy. The Celtic site received a Roman colony (Novum Comum) under Iulius Caesar in the first century BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383627

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
45.81192, 9.085784

Locations:

DARMC location 4830 (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Como (modern)
Comum (750 BC - AD 640)

Comum makes connections with:

None

Comum receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

Strab. (Meineke: Perseus) 5.1.6

See Further:

See Also:

RFO 2718

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 39 E2 Comum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Como

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Suggested citation:
M. Pearce, P. Tozzi, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Comum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383627> [accessed: 10 December 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383627 |title=Places: 383627 (Comum) |author=Pearce, M., P. Tozzi |accessdate=December 10, 2019 12:46 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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