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Firmum Picenum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.V. Harris

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

Last modified Mar 25, 2025 11:55 AM — 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.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413135

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
43.1610772, 13.7168264

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Firmum Picenum (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Φίρμον Πικηνόν (Firmon Pikenon: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Firmum Picenum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
Associated Modern Names:
- Fermo (Italian, modern)

Firmum Picenum makes connections with:

Firmum Picenum part of (regional) Picenum (region) (unspecified date range)
Firmum Picenum part of (administrative) tribus Velina (unspecified date range)

Firmum Picenum receives connections from:

Castellum Firmanorum connection Firmum Picenum (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F2 Firmum Picenum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Fermo

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Suggested citation:
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: 26 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413135 |title=Places: 413135 (Firmum Picenum) |author=Harris, W. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 4:19 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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