Bovianum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Bovianum was a Samnite center and the capital of the Pentri tribe. It received Roman municipium status ca. 87 B.C. By the late first century A.D. it was occupied by veterans of Legio XI and known as the "colonia Bovianum Undecimanoruin".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432725
41.48673, 14.473913
- DARMC location 18259 (330 BC - AD 640)
- Bovianum (330 BC - AD 640)
- Bovianum capital of Pentri (unspecified date range)
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settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F3 Bovianum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Boiano
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Bovianum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432725> [accessed: 24 August 2019]
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