Pompeii

settlement · 750 BC – 2100 AD

An ancient city of Campania destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Coordinates

40.74941, 14.48543

Also known as

Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum (la), Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum (la), Pmpei, Pompei (br), Pompei (la), Pompei (la), Pompeia (ca), Pompeia (grc), Pompeiji, Pompej, Pompeja, Pompejai, Pompeje (cs), Pompeji (bs), Pompejo, Pompey (az), Pompeya (spa), Scavi archeologici di Pompei (ita), Πομπηία (grc), Пампеі (be), Помпеи (ba), Помпей (bg), بومبي (ar), পম্পেই (bn), པོམ་པེ་ཡི། (bo), 庞贝 (zho)

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)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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