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Velabrum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Brady Kiesling

Last modified Dec 16, 2023 10:19 PM — History

The Velabrum is a valley in Rome that connects the Forum Romanum to the Forum Boarium.

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/432833118

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.8892, 12.4819

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of Velabrum (modern) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Velabro (Italian, modern)
- Velabrum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)

Velabrum makes connections with:

Velabrum bounds Forum Boarium (at Rome) (unspecified date range)
Velabrum part of (analytical) Regio XI (Circus Maximus) (unspecified date range)
Velabrum part of (physical/topographic) Roma (unspecified date range)

Velabrum receives connections from:

Arcus Argentariorum part of (physical/topographic) Velabrum (unspecified date range)
Ianus Quadrifons located near Velabrum (AD 300 - AD 640)
San Giorgio in Velabro part of (physical/topographic) Velabrum (unspecified date range)

Place type:
valley

References:

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Q2140194: Velabrum

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Velabrum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432833118> [accessed: 09 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432833118 |title=Places: 432833118 (Velabrum) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 9, 2025 6:41 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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