Velia/Elea
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).
Last modified
Sep 15, 2023 09:16 PM
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History
The ancient city of Elea / Velia was said to have been founded by Phocaean Greeks in the sixth century B.C. and then became an ally of Rome in the third century B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452488
40.1605007372, 15.1561568475
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18993 (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Archaeological site of Elea-Velia (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Castellammare della Bruca succeeds Velia/Elea (AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Moio della Civitella part of (administrative) Velia/Elea (unspecified date range)
- Porta Rosa located at Velia/Elea (unspecified date range)
- Terrace of Zeus located at Velia/Elea (330 BC - AD 300)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 46 B1 Velia/Elea
- Craig et al. 2009
- Greco 1977
- Greco and Strazzulla 1994
- New Pauly Velia [2]
- PECS (Perseus) ELEA later VELIA, Campania, Italy
- RE Velia/ Elea § Bellias 1
- Smith 1854 (Perseus) VELIA
- ToposText Elea (Italy)
- WHL 842: Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
- Wikipedia (English) Velia
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 B1 Velia/Elea
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Castellamare di Velia
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Velia/Elea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452488> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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