Politorium
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
Feb 04, 2022 11:29 AM
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History
An ancient town of Latium located near Castel di Decima. Tradition holds that Ancus Marcius captured the settlement and relocated its occupants to the Aventine Hill in Rome.
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438811
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (750 BC - 550 BC)
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- Πολιτώριον (Politorion: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 550 BC)
- Politorium (Latin, 750 BC - 550 BC)
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- Poletaurini (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Politorium part of (regional) Latium Vetus (region) (unspecified date range)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 Politorium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S Rome
N. Purcell, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Politorium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438811> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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