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Carcassonne

town

Ancient

Carcasso/Carcaso/Col. Iulia

Ancient
Carcasso/Carcaso/Col. Iulia
Type
town

Carcas(s)o/Col. Iulia

Pleiades ID: 246294

settlement

Description

A fortified Roman and Medieval site with occupation beginning from the fourth millennium B.C.

Evidence

  • TP (Talbert: CUP) 1B2 (Talbert 763)
    Talbert, Richard. “Database: Peutinger Map Names and Features, with Commentary and User’s Guide.” In Explore the Peutinger Map. Cambridge UP, 2010. http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/prm.html.
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  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.36.7
    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 25 H2 Carcas(s)o/Col. Iulia
    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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  • CAGR 12 12.71-71a
    Grenier, A. Aude. Carte Archéologique de La Gaule Romaine, XII. Paris, 1959.
  • Salch 1978 64-75
    Salch, Charles Laurent, and Joëlle Burnouf. L’Atlas Des Villes et Villages Fortifiés En France (Moyen Age). Strasbourg: Publitotal, 1978.
  • Rivet 1988 136-39
    Rivet, A. L. F. Gallia Narbonensis: With a Chapter on Alpes Maritimae: Southern France in Roman Times. London: B.T. Batsford, 1988.
  • Bromwich 1993 63-67
    Bromwich, James. The Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guidebook. New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • PECS (Perseus) CARCASO (Carcassonne) Gallia Narbonensis, Aude, France
    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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  • WHL 345: Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
    UNESCO World Heritage Centre. World Heritage List, 1978. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Carcassonne
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Carcassonne.
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  • ToposText Carcasso/Carcaso/Col. Iulia (Gallia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016-.
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See Also

  • RFO 155
    Åhlfeldt, Johan. Regnum Francorum Online, 2009. http://francia.ahlfeldt.se/.
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Names

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Carcas(s)o/Col. Iulia" Pleiades, 14 July 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246294.
Last modified: 2024-07-14T22:18:19Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

CARCASO (Carcassonne) Gallia Narbonensis, Aude, France.

The ancient town was located on the site of the mediaeval city: on a steep hill 400 m from the right bank of the Aude (Atax), on the road from Narbonne to Toulouse. Pliny the elder calls it an oppidum (HN 3.36) and the Bordeaux-Jerusalem Itinerary calls it a castellum. On this site stood a small center fortified by the Volcae Tectosages, then by the Romans, and finally by the Visigoths who took possession of it in 436. The interior rampart of the mediaeval city is generally supposed to rest on Roman foundations, which are in places visible (at the Tour du Plo, for example), and which may date to the 3d or 4th c. The construction of this fortification is sometimes attributed to the Visigoths, but without decisive proof. It appears that the Visigoths were content to restore the Roman work. Fine monochrome mosaics have been found inside the ramparts. No building is known, although the remains of a Temple of Apollo were noted in the 17th c. The town was supplied with water by an aqueduct. Outside the ramparts funerary remains and foundations on the right bank of the Aude may attest to the existence of a suburb.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Grenier, Carte arch. de la Gaule romaine, fasc. XII, Aude (1959)MP; G. Rancoule & Y. Solier, “La Cité de Carcassonne à l'âge du fer,” Bull. Soc. Etudes Scient. Aude 72 (1972)PI.

M. GAYRAUD

Nearby Points of Interest

Aqueduc romain, Carcassonne

2663m away

Location

43.205842, 2.364076