Oplontis

settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD

An ancient place (modern Torre Annunziata in Italy), lying between Pompeii and Herculaneum and buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. Its ancient name is known only from Peutinger's Roman Map.

Coordinates

40.75739, 14.45273

Also known as

Oplont[.]s (la), Torre Annunziata (ita), Torre Annunziata (it), Torre Annunziata (it), Оплонтис (ru)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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