Compsa
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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Dec 27, 2025 09:51 PM
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History
Compsa was a city of the Hirpini, located near the sources of the Aufidus River.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442550
40.8704548417, 15.3304812217
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of archaeological area (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Compsa (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Conza della Campania (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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- Compsani (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Compsa connection Hirpini (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 B3 Compsa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Conza della Campania
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Compsa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442550> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
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