Potentia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris
Creators: W.V. Harris
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 13, 2021 09:18 AM
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History
A city settled in an area subjugated by Rome during the fourth century B.C. The local populace rebelled against Rome after the defeat at Cannae (216 B.C.), however the defeat of the Carthaginians eventually led to Potentia's reincorporation into the Roman sphere.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413272
43.4198358, 13.66733325
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 7091 (330 BC - AD 640)
- Potentia next place in route Sacrata (30 BC - AD 640)
- Unnamed centuriation near Potentia connection Potentia (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F2 Potentia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Porto Recanati
Not to be confused with the Potentia located in Lucania.
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Potentia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413272> [accessed: 28 September 2023]
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