Historical place profile
Hatria (Picenum)
An ancient city of Picenum that may have originated as colony established by Etruscans from Adria in the Veneto region. An alternate narrative suggests that the city's origins may be as a late sixth century B.C. colony founded by Aegina.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:413163
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:413163
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.580200, 13.981081
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient city of Picenum that may have originated as colony established by Etruscans from Adria in the Veneto region. An alternate narrative suggests that the city's origins may be as a late sixth century B.C. colony founded by Aegina.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F3 Hatria
Source and reuse
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Research path
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