You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Lago di Biéntina

Lago di Biéntina

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jun 11, 2026 11:29 AM — History

The Lago di Biéntina was once the largest lake in Italy's Tuscany region. While it was finally drained in 1859 and converted to arable land, the extent to which it was a standing body of water in antiquity remains debated.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553386318

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
43.75, 10.64

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of Lago di Bientina (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Lago di Bientina (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Lago di Biéntina makes connections with:

None

Lago di Biéntina receives connections from:

None

Place type:
lake

References:

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Lago di Bientina (Q3825910)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and W.V. Harris, 'Lago di Biéntina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553386318> [accessed: 22 July 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/553386318 |title=Places: 553386318 (Lago di Biéntina) |author=Becker, J., W. Harris |accessdate=July 22, 2026 1:15 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Lago di Biéntina