Silvium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Mar 08, 2025 10:44 PM
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History
Silvium (modern Gravina in Puglia) was founded as a Greek colony. It was a town on the frontier of the Peucetii.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796
40.819597015, 16.4123476782
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Scavi archeologici di Botromagno (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Silvium located on Via Appia (unspecified date range)
- Vagnari located near Silvium (30 BC - AD 640)
settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 D3 Silvium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Botromagno/Gravina di Puglia
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Silvium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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