Baetulo
Baetulo was an ancient Roman city that was on the northeast coast of what is now Spain . It is the modern Badalona . A nearby river, today's Besòs , had the same name .
As excavations have shown, the city located in the Lacetani area was built around 80 to 70 BC. Founded. In the middle of the 1st century BC The place seems to have had an urban character. During the imperial period it belonged to the province of Hispania Tarraconensis . Baetulo was about 413 by 261 meters with a checkerboard map. The remains of a bath have been preserved from this period. Another bath is dated later. The city had a city wall that was built in the first century BC. This is well explored over a length of 24 meters. There was a tower and a gate. Various atrium houses could be excavated, which prove the purely Roman character of the city. Pliny referred to Baetulo as a Roman city in the 1st century AD ( oppidum civium Romanorum ).
The city was inhabited until the sixth century.
literature
- Josep Guitart i Duran, Pepita Padros i Martí: La ciutat romana de Baetulo (Badalona). Historia i urbanisme. In: Espais. Revista del Departament de Política Territorial i Obres Públiques 31, 1991, pp. 50-56 ( pdf ).
- Josep Guitart i Duran: Iluro, Baetulo, Iesso, and the establishment of the Roman town model in Catalunya . In: Abad Casal, S. Keay, S. Ramallo Asensio (eds.): Early Roman Towns in Hispania Tarraconensis. Portsmouth, Rhode Island 2006. ISBN 1-887829-62-8 , pp. 53-55.
- Emil Huebner : Baetulo . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2764.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 3, 4, 22.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 27 ′ 7.7 " N , 2 ° 14 ′ 51.8" E