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Venta Silurum
(156 words)
[German version] Town in South Wales, modern Caerwent. After the defeat of the Silures by the Roman governor Frontinus
c. AD 74-76 (Tac. Agr. 17,3) VS developed into a centre of civilian settlement in the Vale of Glamorgan. VS became the capital, probably under Hadrian, of the
civitas of the Silures (cf. [1]). The construction of public buildings (forum, basilica, temple) began after 125. In the late 2nd cent. AD VS was fortified with earthworks. In late Antiquity VS flourished economically (construction of numerous private houses in stone)…
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Brill’s New Pauly