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Badalona

city

Ancient

Baetulo

Ancient
Baetulo
Type
city

Baetulo

Pleiades ID: 246220

settlement

Description

Baetulo (now Badalona in Spain) was situated near the mouth of the Baetulo river some 10 km northeast of Barcelona. The likely native oppidum became a Roman settlement. Archaeological evidence of well-appointed domus has been recovered, along with Latin inscriptions.

See Further

  • BAtlas 25 H4 Baetulo
    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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  • TIR Tarraco 40-42
    Cepas, Adela, Joseph Guitart i Duran, and Guillermo Fatás Cabeza. Tabula Imperii Romani: K/J-31 Pyrénées Orientales/Baleares: Tarraco - Baliares. Tabula Imperii Romani, K/J-31. Pyreneés Orientales-Baleares. Madrid: Ministerio de Fomento: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura CSIC : Institut D’Estudis Catalans, 1997. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40415507.
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  • New Pauly Baetulo
    Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Manfred Landfester, Christine F. Salazar, and Francis G. Gentry, eds. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill, 2015. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly.
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  • PECS (Perseus) BAETULO (Badalona) Barcelona, 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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  • ToposText Baetulo (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.
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  • RE Baetulo
    Pauly, August Friedrich von, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, and Konrat Ziegler, eds. Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 83 vols. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1894.
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Names

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Baetulo" Pleiades, 14 September 2021. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246220.
Last modified: 2021-09-14T02:24:35Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

BAETULO (Badalona) Barcelona, Spain.

Town on the coast of Laietania, 10 km NE of Barcelona, near the mouth of the Baetulo (Besos) in Tarraconensis. The suffix -ilo, typically iberian, suggests that originally it was a native oppidum, which has not been identified. it grew in the 1st c. B.C. when several nearby iberian settlements were abandoned. According to Pliny (HN 3.22) it was an oppidum enjoying Roman rights; it is also mentioned by P. Mela (2.90) and Ptolemy (2.6.18). its prosperity in the 1st-3d c. was due to trade in local wine. The town was reduced to ruins during the invasion of the Franks, but was rebuilt and fortified by great walls, some sectors of which still survive.

Excavation has uncovered Roman houses with mosaics (now in the Barcelona Archaeological Museum) and many inscriptions; the earliest (CIL II, 4606-4608), include an important bronze tabula patronatus. The local archaeological museum, in addition to Roman material, has finds from nearby prehistoric deposits and iberian oppida, in particular the Mas Boscá.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. de C. Serra Ráfols, “Excavaciones a Badalona,” Anuari de l'institut d'Estudis Catalans 8 (1927-31) 100; Forma Conventus Tarraconensis, I. Baetulo-Blandae (1928); “Una tabula Hospitalis trobada a Badalona,” Butlletí Museus d'Art de Barcelona 4 (1934) 334; “Excavaciones en Badalona y descubrimiento de la puerta NE de la ciudad,” Ampurias 1 (1939) 268.

J. MALUQUER DE MOTES

Nearby Points of Interest

Montigalà

1919m away

Can Sent-romà, Tiana

3414m away

Les Maleses

4973m away

Location

41.452489, 2.247261