Firmum Picenum
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
May 02, 2025 11:46 AM
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History
tags:
municipium,
dare:major=1,
polygonal masonry,
dare:feature=major settlement,
dare:ancient=1,
colonia Latina
Firmum Picenum was founded as a Latin colony in 264 B.C. with 6,000 colonists. It received municipal status after 48 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413135
43.1610772, 13.7168264
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Firmum Picenum (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Φίρμον Πικηνόν (Firmon Pikenon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Firmum Picenum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
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- Fermo (Italian, modern)
- Firmum Picenum part of (regional) Picenum (region) (unspecified date range)
- Firmum Picenum part of (administrative) tribus Velina (unspecified date range)
- Castellum Firmanorum connection Firmum Picenum (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 42 F2 Firmum Picenum
- EDH G018359: Firmum Picenum – Fermo
- Houston 1977
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 316,8 Firmum
- ItMiller 318
- New Pauly Firmum Picenum (G. Uggeri)
- PECS (Perseus) FIRMUM PICENUM (Fermo) Marche, Italy
- Polverini 1987
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) FIRMUM
- ToposText Firmum Picenum (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Fermo
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F2 Firmum Picenum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Fermo
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Firmum Picenum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413135> [accessed: 21 June 2025]
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