Caudium

settlement · 750 BC – 1999 AD

A city of Samnium located between Capua and Beneventum. In 321 B.C., the Samnites under C. Pontius encamped there before defeating the Romans at the Battle of the Caudine Forks.

Coordinates

41.06255, 14.63676

Also known as

Caudio (la), Cavdio (la), Montesarchio (it), Montesarchio (it)

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)

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