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L'Albufereta, Alicante

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Ancient

Lucentum/Castrum Album/Akra Leuke

Ancient
Lucentum/Castrum Album/Akra Leuke
Type
city

Lucentum

Pleiades ID: 265954

settlement

Description

Lucentum was a Phoenician and then Roman settlement in Tarraconensis that was largely abandoned after the third century.

Evidence

  • Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 3.20.2
    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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  • Mela (Ranstrand: PHI) 2.93.2
    Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia libri tres. Edited by Gunnar Ranstrand. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 28. Göteborg; Stockholm: Published by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of Göteborg] ; Almqvist & Wiksell [distributor], 1971. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/929/1/0.
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See Further

  • BAtlas 27 E3 Lucentum
    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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  • PECS (Perseus) LUCENTUM (Alicante) Alicante, 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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  • Tovar 1989 201-204
    Tovar, Antonio. Tarraconensis. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1989.
  • Wikipedia (English) Castrum Album
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Castrum Album.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Alicante
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Alicante.
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  • Wikipedia (English) Lucentum
    Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Lucentum.
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  • Ptol (Müller: Hathi Trust) 2.14.14
    Ptolemy. Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographike hyphegesis = Claudii Ptolemæi Geographia. Edited by Karl Müller. 2 vols. Parisiis: Alfredo Firmin Didot, 1883. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003477580.
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  • Smith 1854 (Perseus) ACRA LEUCE
    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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  • New Pauly Acra Leuce
    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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  • Doménech et al. 2014
    Doménech, Manuel H. Olcina, Antonio P. Guilabert Mas, and Eva Tendero Porras. “Lucentum: El municipi de Lucentum.” In Ciudades romanas valencianas: actas de las Jornadas sobre Ciudades Romanas Valencianas. Actualidad de la investigación historicoarqueológica, celebradas en el MARQ los días 3 y 4 de diciembre de 2013 = Ciutats Romanes Valencianes : actes de les Jornades sobre Ciutats Romanes Vale, 2014, ISBN 978-84-15327-47-9, págs. 200-216, 200–216. Museo Arqueológico de Alicante - MARQ, 2014. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5000470.
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  • Doménech et al. 2013
    Doménech, Manuel H. Olcina, Antonio P. Guilabert Mas, and Eva Tendero Porras. “La curia de Lucentum.” In Las sedes de los "Ordines decurionum" en Hispania: análisis arquitectónico y modelo tipológico, 2013, ISBN 978-84-00-09771-4, págs. 165-191, 165–91. Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida, 2013. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=4685877.
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  • ToposText Lucentum/Castrum Album/Akra Leuke (Iberia)
    Kiesling, Brady. ToposText – a Reference Tool for Greek Civilization. Version 2.0. Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, 2016. https://topostext.org/.
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Names

la grc

Citation Information

P.O. Spann. "Lucentum" Pleiades, 21 January 2024. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/265954.
Last modified: 2024-01-21T04:05:59Z

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