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Silvium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt

Last modified Jun 08, 2018 06:56 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:feature=settlement, dare:major=0

Silvium (modern Gravina in Puglia) was founded as a Greek colony. It was a town on the frontier of the Peucetii.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.8191945, 16.416637

Locations:

DARE Location (750 BC - AD 300)
DARMC location 18886 (750 BC - AD 300)

Names:

Sidis (750 BC - AD 300)
Silvini (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
Silvium (750 BC - AD 300)

Silvium makes connections with:

Silvium on Via Appia (unspecified date range)

Silvium receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

Plin. HN (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.105.11

See Further:

Related:

TM GEO ID 14290

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 D3 Silvium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Botromagno/Gravina di Puglia

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Silvium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796> [accessed: 25 September 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796 |title=Places: 442796 (Silvium) |author=Edlund Berry, I., A. Small |accessdate=September 25, 2018 11:49 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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