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Cales (Campania)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: N. Purcell

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

Last modified Mar 20, 2025 12:10 AM — 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.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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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:
- Cales (550 BC - 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)
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, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cales (Campania): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432739> [accessed: 26 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432739 |title=Places: 432739 (Cales (Campania)) |author=Purcell, N. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 12:32 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Cales (Campania)