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Vejano

a Pleiades place resource

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Vejano, located in the Province of Viterbo, is located on the Mignone river approximately 60 km northwest of Rome. While the most visible monument on the site today is the fifteenth century castle known as "La Rocca", the site has a long settlement history reaching back to the Bronze Age.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/765136701

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.216757, 12.0952017

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Vejano (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Vejano makes connections with:

Vejano located on Via Clodia (30 BC - AD 300)

Vejano receives connections from:

Torre d'Ischia, Vejano part of (physical/topographic) Vejano (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Evidence for Bronze Age settlement has been excavated in and around Vejano. Some scholars suggest that its name originally derives from the Etruscan city-state of Veii. By the first century B.C. the site was a Roman settlement along the Via Clodia.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Vejano: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/765136701> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/765136701 |title=Places: 765136701 (Vejano) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 12:37 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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