Ameria (Umbria)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 04, 2025 10:01 PM
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History
tags:
municipium,
dare:major=1,
polygonal masonry,
dare:feature=major settlement,
Jupiter,
dare:ancient=1
Ameria, claimed by Cato the Elder (quoted by Pliny) as the oldest town in Umbria, was an important center that may have gained Roman municipal status as early as 338 B.C., following the Latin War.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413012
42.557237, 12.413467
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 6942 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Ameria (Umbria) next place in route Castellum Amerinum (unspecified date range)
- Ameria (Umbria) connection Via Amerina (unspecified date range)
- Ameria (Umbria) connection tribus Clustumina (unspecified date range)
- City wall of Ameria located at Ameria (Umbria) (unspecified date range)
- Tuder next place in route Ameria (Umbria) (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 C3 Ameria
- Becker 2007
- ItMiller 293
- Maraldi 1997
- Monacchi 1994
- New Pauly Ameria [1] Town in Umbria (G. Uggeri and E. Olshausen)
- PECS (Perseus) AMERIA (Amelia) Umbria, Italy
- RE Ameria 2 (Ch. Hülsen)
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) AMERIA
- ToposText Ameria (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Amelia, Umbria
- Zuddas 2017
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 C3 Ameria
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Amelia. Given the evidence from Cicero's speech Pro Roscio Amerino, the town was still prosperous ca. 80 BC.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ameria (Umbria): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413012> [accessed: 05 December 2025]
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