Centum Cellae
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).
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Jun 19, 2024 04:10 PM
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History
Centum Cellae (modern Civitavecchia) was an ancient coastal settlement in Tyrrhenian Etruria. The emperor Trajan re-builds the harbor at the site in 106/7 and Pliny the Younger mentions its name, Centum Cellae. Saracens destroyed the city in A.D. 812.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413076
42.091179, 11.79681
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18325 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Centum Cellae (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Civitavecchia (Italian, modern)
- Κεντουκέλλαι (Kentoukellai: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Τραιανὸς λιμήν (Traianos limen: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Centum Cellae connection Via Aurelia (unspecified date range)
- Cencelle succeeds Centum Cellae (AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Forte Michelangelo located at Centum Cellae (unspecified date range)
- Traianus? located near Centum Cellae (30 BC - AD 300)
- Untitled located near Centum Cellae (30 BC - AD 300)
settlement, port
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 B4 Centum Cellae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Civitavecchia
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Centum Cellae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413076> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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