Alba Fucens

settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD

A town of the Aequi along the Marsic frontier where the Romans established a Latin colony in 304/3 B.C. Alba Fucens was a significant center of the middle republican period and became a place where Rome kept state prisoners, including Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, and Bituitus, king of the Arverni.

Coordinates

42.07990, 13.41118

Also known as

Alba (la), Alba (la), Alba Phoukinis (grc), Albensium Alba ad Fucinum lacum (la), Albensium Alba ad Fucinum lacum (la), Ἄλβα Φουκινίς (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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