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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 Jan 16, 2020 04:30 PM — History

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

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

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

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Evidence:

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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, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383678> [accessed: 27 May 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383678 |title=Places: 383678 (Insubres) |author=Pearce, M., P. Tozzi |accessdate=May 27, 2020 2:32 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Insubres