Braga

Description

With settlement from the Neolithic onwards, Bracara Augusta was established as a civitas in 20 B.C. In the third century A.D. Diocletian advanced the settlement to the capital of the administrative area known as Conventus Bracarensis, forming part of the Roman province of Gallaecia.

Evidence

• Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 4.112.4

  Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.

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See Further

• BAtlas 24 C3 Bracara Augusta

  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 310-11

  Tovar, Antonio. Tarraconensis. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1989.
• Wikipedia (English) Bracara Augusta

  Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Bracara Augusta.

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• PECS (Perseus) BRACARA AUGUSTA (Braga) Minho, Portugal

  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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• Wikipedia (English) Braga

  Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Braga.

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• Wikipedia (Portuguese) Bracara Augusta

  Wikipédia: A enciclopédia livre que todos podem editar (2001-), Bracara Augusta.

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• ToposText Bracara Augusta (Lusitania)

  Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.

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See Also

• Smith 1854 (Perseus) ÁSTURES

  Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: Murray, 1854. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064.

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