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).
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Jun 16, 2025 11:14 AM
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 "colonia Bovianum Undecumanorum".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432725
41.48673, 14.473913
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18259 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Bovianum capital of Pentri (unspecified date range)
- Ad Canales next place in route Bovianum (AD 300 - AD 640)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 44 F3 Bovianum
- GAL Abruzzo 193-201
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 102,5 Bononiano
- ItMiller 370
- La Regina 1966
- New Pauly Bovianum
- OCD Online "Bovianum Vetus" (Edward Togo Salmon and T. W. Potter)
- PECS (Perseus) BOVIANUM (Boiano) Abruzzi e Mouse, Italy
- Scaroina 2015
- ToposText Bovianum (Italy)
- Wikipedia (English) Bojano
- Wikipedia (Italian) Bojano
- 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, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432725> [accessed: 11 July 2025]
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