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Cerro de las Camorras

town

Ancient

Munda

Ancient
Munda
Type
town

Munda

Pleiades ID: 256314

settlement

Description

Munda, in southern Iberia, was the site of two important battles in antiquity. The first was Cn. Cornelius Scipio's defeated of the Carthaginians in 214 B.C. and the second Iulius Caesar's victory over the Pompeians in 45 B.C.

Evidence

  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.12.6
    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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  • Liv. (OCT: PHI) 24.42.1-4
    Titus Livius. Titi Livi Ab Urbe Condita. 5 vols. Clarendon: Oxford U.P, 1908. https://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/0#0.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 26 E4 Munda
    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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  • Sillières 1990 428
    Sillières, Pierre. Les voies de communication de l’Hispanie méridionale. Publications du Centre Pierre Paris 20. Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1990. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25076246.
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  • New Pauly Munda
    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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  • ToposText Munda (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016. https://topostext.org/.
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See Also

  • Wikipedia (English) Battle of Munda
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Battle of Munda.
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Names

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Citation Information

Jr., F.H. Stanley, and R.C. Knapp. "Munda" Pleiades, 15 December 2023. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256314.
Last modified: 2023-12-15T18:25:42Z

Location

37.37622, -5.19621