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Gerunda

Pleiades ID: 246406

settlement

Description

A settlement of Tarraconensis located at the confluence of the Ter and the Onyar rivers, Gerunda was the chief town of the Gerundenses. Modern Girona in Spain.

Evidence

TP (Talbert: CUP) 1B1 (Talbert 770) Ce++nda
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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BAtlas 25 H4 Gerunda
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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Nolla 1987
Nolla, Josep Maria. Girona Romana: De La Fundació a La Fi Del Món Antic. 1a en català. Girona: Diputació de Girona, 1987.
TIR Tarraco 83
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 Gerunda
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) GERUNDA (Gerona) Gerona, 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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Creators & Contributors

H.S. Sivan S.J. Keay R.W. Mathisen DARMC R. Talbert Sean Gillies Johan Åhlfeldt Jeffrey Becker Tom Elliott

Citation Information

H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, and R.W. Mathisen. "Gerunda" Pleiades, 09 February 2022. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246406.

Last modified: 2022-02-09T17:26:55Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

GERUNDA (Gerona) Gerona, Spain.

Town in the province of Tarraconensis at the confluence of the Ter and the Onyar. Chief town of the Gerundenses who, according to Pliny (HN 3.23), had Latin rights. It was an oppidum of the Ausetani who controlled the defile of the Ter which separated them from the Indiketes and from Emporion's area of influence. Stretches of the pre-Roman cyclopean wall, which was strengthened during the Republican era, still survive; the wall of the Imperial age, rebuilt on the same perimeter, dates from the end of the 3d c. The town is on the main Roman road from Tarraco to Narbo and is mentioned in ancient sources (Ant.It. 390; Ptol. 2.6.9). Like all of Tarraconensis it was invaded by the Franks but, thanks to its fortifications, it subsequently acquired greater importance under the Late Empire (Rav. Cosm. 307.4; 341.13).

From an early time it had a large Christian community and was a bishopric (Martyr. Felix peristeph. 4.29). The Church of San Felix contains pagan and Christian sarcophagi. Roman villas outside the town have yielded the mosaic of Ball-lloch and others, now in the Barcelona and Gerona museums; the mosaic of Sarria de Ter is now being excavated. A local museum is being built, which contains prehistoric, Iberian, and Greek materials from Rosas and Ampurias, in addition to Roman remains.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Comision de Monumentos de Gerona, El mosaico romano descubierto en la Torre de Ball-loch (1876); J. Martorell y Peña, Recintos fortificados (1881); E. Bonnet, “Les sarcophages chrétiens de l'église Saint Felix de Géronne et l'Ecole Arlésienne de sculpture funéraire,” BAC (1911); J. Puig i Cadafalch, L'Arquitectura romana a Catalunya (1934)^I.

J. MALUQUER DE MOTES

Nearby Points of Interest

Bell-Lloc del Pla

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Girona

Ancient