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Insubres

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi

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

Last modified Feb 20, 2015 08:27 AM — History

A Gallic tribe of Northern Italy, giving their name to the region of Insubria.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383678

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
45.463746, 9.18806

Locations:

Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Ἴνσουβροι (Insoubroi: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
Insubres (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)

Insubres makes connections with:

None

Insubres receives connections from:

Mediolan(i)um connection Insubres (unspecified date range)

Place type:
people, tribe

References:

Evidence:

Plin. HN 3.124.5

See Further:

See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Insubria

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 39 D2 Insubres

Details:

The founders of Mediolanum (Milan), conquered by Rome in the 2nd century BCE.

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Suggested citation:
M. Pearce, P. Tozzi, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Insubres: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383678> [accessed: 24 September 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383678 |title=Places: 383678 (Insubres) |author=Pearce, M., P. Tozzi |accessdate=September 24, 2018 5:27 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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