Luna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert
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Last modified
Nov 10, 2025 07:13 AM
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History
Luna (the modern Luni) is an ancient settlement of Liguria. It was re-founded by the Romans as a colonial settlement in 177 BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403235
44.0639916487, 10.0167934777
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Luni (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Luna (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Λοῦνα (Luna: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Lvne (Lune: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Luni (Italian, modern)
- primum Etruriae oppidum Luna (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Luna part of (analytical) Ager Lunensis Survey area (unspecified date range)
- Luna part of (regional) Liguria (region) (unspecified date range)
- Luna located on Via Cassia (unspecified date range)
- Luna located on Via Francigena (unspecified date range)
- Roman amphitheater at Luna located at Luna (unspecified date range)
- Roman forum of Luna located at Luna (unspecified date range)
settlement, port, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 41 C1 Luna
- Banti 1937
- Cadario 2020
- Frova 1973
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 289,2
- ItMiller 288, 239
- Lackner 2008 113 ff., 356
- Menchelli 2024
- New Pauly Luna [3] Harbour town (Richard L. Gordon and Maria Gabriella Angeli Bertinelli)
- PECS (Perseus) LUNA (Luni) La Spezia province, Liguria, Italy
- RE Luna 1
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) LUNA
- ToposText Luna (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Luna (Etruria)
- Wikipedia (English) Luni Italy
- See Also:
- Related:
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- Arachne Luna La Spezia (Provinz) (Luna), Italien
- EDH Geographic Database G007533: Luna – Luni (via San Pero, bei)
- GeoNames 10286990: Area archeologica e sistema museale dell'antica città di Luna
- GeoNames 10286993: Museo archeologica dell'antica città di Luna
- GeoNames 3174455: Luni
- KU TP Database (Rathmann) 85: Lvnae (Lunae)
- TGN 7010011: Luni (inhabited place)
- TM GEO ID 31016: Luna (Luni)
- Wikidata Luna (Q579763)
- iDAI.gazetteer 2338697: Luni
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 41 C1 Luna
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Luni
W.V. Harris, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Stefano Costa, Tom Elliott, DARMC, and R. Talbert, 'Luna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403235> [accessed: 12 February 2026]
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