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Aletrium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: N. Purcell

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

Last modified Apr 16, 2025 01:59 PM — History

tags: dare:major=1, limestone, polygonal masonry, dare:feature=major settlement, dare:ancient=1

A Hernican hill town that formed part of a sixth-century B.C. defensive league against Volscian and Samnite aggression and allied itself to Tarquinius Superbus. Rome eventually took Aletrium in 306 B.C.; by the first century B.C., the site was a Roman municipium.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.724822, 13.343955

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Alatri (Italian, AD 640 - Present)
- Aletrium (330 BC - AD 640)
- Ἀλέτριον (Alétrion: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)

Aletrium makes connections with:

Aletrium capital of Aletrinates (unspecified date range)
Aletrium connection Hernici (unspecified date range)
Aletrium part of (administrative) Italia, Regio I (unspecified date range)
Aletrium part of (regional) Latium Adiectum (unspecified date range)

Aletrium receives connections from:

Acropolis of Aletrium located at Aletrium (unspecified date range)
S. Sebastianus located near Aletrium (AD 300 - AD 640)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 D2 Aletrium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alatri

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Suggested citation:
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Aletrium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664> [accessed: 23 April 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664 |title=Places: 432664 (Aletrium) |author=Purcell, N. |accessdate=April 23, 2025 8:57 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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