Braga

city

Ancient

Bracara Augusta

Place Type
city
Ancient Name
Bracara Augusta
Archaeological Type
city

PLEIADES platform information on Classical Antiquity

Pleiades ID: 236377

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.

  • 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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  • 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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Citation

E.W. Haley. "Bracara Augusta" Pleiades, 18 June 2025. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236377.
Last modified: 2025-06-18T23:56:59Z

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