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Vatican
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In the republican and early imperial periods, the right bank of the Tiber was occupied by the
Ager Vaticanus (Plin.
Nat. 3.53), which extended from a point facing the town of
Fidenae to the north to the
prata Quinctia facing the
navalia, the river port, to the south (Livy 3.26.8; Plin.
Nat. 18.20). From the 2nd century CE onward, sources use the toponym
Vaticanum, comprising Vatican Hill and the little valley to the south of it, an area corresponding to the current Vatican City. We can define its extension in an approximate way on the basis of various indications: the definition
in Vaticano is a…
Date:
2022-09-22
