Cortona
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, 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
May 28, 2026 07:52 PM
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History
An Umbrian city that, under Etruscan influence, expanded and came to be called 'Curtun'. Later it became the Roman colony of Cortino.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413106
43.274078, 11.98775
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 7037 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Cortona part of (administrative) tribus Stellatina (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Melone del Sodo connection Cortona (unspecified date range)
- Tanella Angori connection Cortona (unspecified date range)
- Tanella di Pitagora located near Cortona (unspecified date range)
- Tomba di Mezzavia located at Cortona (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- ASAT 385-405
- BAtlas 42 B2 Cortona
- BTCGI V, 422-431 (Michel Gras)
- EDH HD014003
- EncAncHist Cortona
- New Pauly Cortona (Michele Cataudella and Pedro Barceló)
- OCD Online Cortona (D. W. R. Ridgway)
- PECS (Perseus) CORTONA Tuscany, Italy
- RE Cortona 1 (C. Hülsen)
- The Etruscan Academy Museum of the City of Cortona
- ToposText Cortona (Italy)
- TrecEnc Cortona
- Wikipedia (English) Cortona
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 B2 Cortona
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cortona
W.V. Harris, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, John Muccigrosso, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Cortona: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413106> [accessed: 19 July 2026]
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