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Legio VII Gemina

Ancient
Legio VII Gemina
Type
fort

Legio VII Gemina

Pleiades ID: 236512

fort-2 amphitheatre

Description

The Roman Legio VII Gemina was based in Tarraconensis and gave its name to the settlement. This ancient place is now León, Spain, which is built atop the ancient settlement.

See Further

  • BAtlas 24 F2 Legio VII Gemina
    Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.
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  • Tovar 1989, 336-38
  • Wikipedia (Spanish) Legio (ciudad)
    Wikipedia: la enciclopedia de contenido libre (2001-), Legio (ciudad).
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  • Wikipedia (Spanish) Murallas de León
    Wikipedia: la enciclopedia de contenido libre (2001-), Murallas de León.
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  • PECS (Perseus) LEGIO (León) León, Spain
    Stillwell, Richard, William L MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister, eds. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006.
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  • Richmond 1931
    Richmond, I. A. “Five Town-Walls in Hispania Citerior.” The Journal of Roman Studies 21 (1931): 86–100. https://doi.org/Richmond 1931.
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See Also

  • Wikipedia (English) Legio VII Gemina
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Legio VII Gemina.
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Citation Information

E.W. Haley. "Legio VII Gemina" Pleiades, 14 April 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236512.
Last modified: 2025-04-14T16:18:18Z

Nearby Points of Interest

Navatejera, Léon

3614m away

Location

42.599489, -5.566656