Cominium Ocritum
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).
Last modified
May 25, 2026 10:41 AM
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History
Cominium Ocritum was a Samnite stronghold captured in 291 BC by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438720
41.3056658844, 14.5628162638
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Cominium Ocritum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Cominium Ocritum part of (administrative) Pentri (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Cerreto Sannita located at Cominium Ocritum (unspecified date range)
unlocated
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Cominium Ocritum
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N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cominium Ocritum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438720> [accessed: 09 October 2026]
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