Aufidus (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The Aufidus is the longest of the rivers in Apulia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442485
41.0739165039, 15.6866740167
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Fiume Ofanto (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aufidus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Canna (unspecified date range)
- Fl. Avfid(vs) (Fluvius Aufidus: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Ofanto (Italian, modern)
- ποταμός Aὔφιδος (potamos Aufidos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Aufidus (river) flows into (H)Adriaticum/Superum Mare (modern)
- Aufidus (river) bounds Tavoliere delle Puglie (unspecified date range)
- Aufidena/Aufinum located on Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Cannae connection Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Canusium connection Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Pietra Dell’Oglio (bridge) crosses Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed Roman bridge near Canusium crosses Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Untitled crosses Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 C2 Aufidus fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ofanto
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Gabriel Mckee, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Aufidus (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442485> [accessed: 06 February 2026]
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