Aletrium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell
Creators: N. Purcell
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jul 01, 2026 09:54 PM
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History
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 town was a Roman municipium.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664
41.724822, 13.343955
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- 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)
- Acropolis of Aletrium located at Aletrium (unspecified date range)
- S. Sebastianus located near Aletrium (AD 300 - AD 640)
settlement
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- Related:
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- Arachne Alatri Frosinone (Provinz), Italien
- DARMC 18172
- EDH Geographic Database G012242: Aletrium – Alatri (Piazza Rosa)
- EDH HD025252: Inscription from Aletrium – Alatri (Latium et Campania (Regio I))
- GeoNames 6541894: Alatri
- TGN 7006674: Alatri (inhabited place)
- TM GEO ID 32367: Aletrium (Alatri)
- Wikidata Alatri (Q18400)
- iDAI.gazetteer 2086464: Alatri
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 D2 Aletrium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alatri
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, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432664> [accessed: 10 July 2026]
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