Horta
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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Jan 06, 2024 11:07 AM
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History
The Etruscan settlement of *Hurta (the modern Orte) was close to the Vadimonis Lacus where the Romans fought, and won, two engagements against Etruscan armies.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413172
42.460326, 12.386423
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18039 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Horta connection Vadimonis (lake) (unspecified date range)
- Horta connection tribus Stellatina (unspecified date range)
- Castellum Amerinum located near Horta (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 C4 Horta
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Orte
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Horta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413172> [accessed: 02 February 2025]
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