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Cosa

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.V. Harris

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Fentress, Tom Elliott

Last modified Feb 02, 2019 03:52 PM — History

tags: dare:major=1, limestone, polygonal masonry, dare:feature=major settlement, extant remains, dare:ancient=1, colonia Latina

A Latin colony in south Etruria founded ca. 273 B.C.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.4105651, 11.2858448

Locations:

OSM location of city wall (330 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Cosa (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
Κόσαι (Kosai: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Cosa makes connections with:

Cosa connection Via Aemilia Scauri (unspecified date range)
Cosa connection Via Aurelia (unspecified date range)

Cosa receives connections from:

Forum of Cosa connection Cosa (unspecified date range)
Arx of Cosa connection Cosa (unspecified date range)

Place type:
wall (of a city), city wall, settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 A4 Cosa

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ansedonia

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Suggested citation:
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Fentress, and Tom Elliott, 'Cosa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107> [accessed: 10 December 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413107 |title=Places: 413107 (Cosa) |author=Harris, W. |accessdate=December 10, 2019 4:26 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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