Spina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi
Creators: M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Anne User, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 20, 2026 08:32 PM
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History
An Etruscan port city at the mouth of the Po River on the Adriatic Sea, most likely founded at the end of the sixth century B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/393498
44.6934447879, 12.0930800829
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Spina Archaeological Site (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Spina connection (H)Adriaticum/Superum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Spina connection Septem Maria (Po River Delta) (unspecified date range)
- Spina connection Via Popilia (in Aemilia) (unspecified date range)
- Sacis ad Padum located north of Spina (unspecified date range)
settlement, port, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 40 C3 Spina
- Berti 1993
- Hansen 2004 334
- Kay, Pomar, and Hay 2021
- New Pauly Spina (Christoph Höcker and Giovanni Uggeri)
- PECS (Perseus) SPINA Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Reusser 2011
- Spina: History of a town
- ToposText Spina (Etruria)
- Uggeri 1974
- Uggeri 2020
- Wikipedia (English) Spina
- Wikipedia (Italian) Spina (città)
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 40 C3 Spina
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Valpega
M. Pearce, R. Peretto, P. Tozzi, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Anne User, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Spina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/393498> [accessed: 13 July 2026]
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