Poseidonia/Paestum
settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD
Greeks from Sybaris originally founded Poseidonia/Paestum, a major Greco-Roman center of south Italy, in the seventh-century BCE. It was originally named Poseidonia. After the Pyrrhic war, the city became a Latin colony named Paestum ca. 273 BCE.
- Coordinates
- 40.42085, 15.00508
- Also known as
- Paestum (la), Paestum (la), Paistom (ett), Paistos (grc), Parco Archeologico di Paestum, Pestu (la), Pestum (ita), Pestv̄ (la), Poseidonia (grc), Posidonia (la), Posidonia (la), Παιστός (grc), Ποσειδωνία (ell), Ποσειδωνία (grc), Пестум (rus), Посейдония (rus), 帕埃斯图姆 (zho)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0© OpenHistoricalMap contributors
- iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BYiDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)
- GeoNames · CC BY 4.0© GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
- GeoNames · CC BY 4.0© GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)