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Cales (Campania)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: N. Purcell

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

Last modified May 27, 2026 02:57 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, colonia Latina, dare:feature=major settlement

Cales was an ancient city of Campania of Ausonian origins. The Romans captured the town in 335 B.C. and established a colony there.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432739

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.199961, 14.1321245

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 7012 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Cale (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Cales (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Calvi (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Calvi Risorta (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Κάλης (Kales: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Καλησία (Kalesia: Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)

Cales (Campania) makes connections with:

Cales (Campania) connection Via Latina (unspecified date range)

Cales (Campania) receives connections from:

Less than certain: Lucanum located near Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)
Ponte delle Monache sanctuary located at Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)
Roman theater at Cales located at Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)
Unnamed centuriation (Cales) located at Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)
Vicus Esquilinus located near Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)
Vicus Palatius located near Cales (Campania) (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F3 Cales

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Calvi

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Suggested citation:
N. Purcell, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Scott Smith, and Greta Hawes, 'Cales (Campania): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432739> [accessed: 09 October 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432739 |title=Places: 432739 (Cales (Campania)) |author=Purcell, N. |accessdate=October 9, 2026 4:30 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Cales (Campania)