Civitas Leonina
settlement · 640 AD – 1453 AD
The Civitas Leonina or Leonine City is a portion of the city of Rome on the left bank of the river Tiber around which Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of the Leonine Wall in the ninth century AD. This followed the Saracen sack of Rome in AD 846.
- Coordinates
- 41.90347, 12.44951
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)