Cannae
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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Jan 26, 2026 02:28 PM
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History
An ancient settlement of Apulia on the Aufidus River. Nearby, the Roman army suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Carthaginians in 216 B.C. during the Second Punic War.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442523
41.296683331, 16.1518327589
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Canne della Battaglia (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Cannae (Latin, 750 BC - AD 300)
- Canne della Battaglia (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Cannae connection Aufidus (river) (unspecified date range)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 D2 Cannae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Canne
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cannae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442523> [accessed: 14 May 2026]
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