Fregellae
Fregellae was a city in ancient Italy .
Fregellae was on the upper Liris (today Liri ), not far from the mouth of the Trerus (today Sacco ), and was of particular military importance due to its location. Originally it was of Oscan inhabited Opikern, then by the Volscians and later by the Samnites . 328 BC It became a Latin colony of Rome . In the Second Samnite War that broke out afterwards , Fregellae was defeated in the Caudinian Passes in 320 BC after the Roman defeat . Recovered temporarily (until 313 BC) by the Samnites. During the wars against Pyrrhus , who defeated the city in 280 BC. And Hannibal was loyal to Rome for Fregellae. Between 201 and 177 BC Because of the favorable location of the city, about 4000 families immigrated to the area.
In 125 BC However, Fregellae, one of the most important cities in Italy, began a war against Rome because the Roman people's assembly refused to give its allies Roman citizenship . But the city soon succumbed to the praetor Lucius Opimius through treason ; their walls were razed. Fregellae became a village. His name was retained in a stretch of land ( ager Fregellanus ), a street station on the Via Latina ( Fregellanum ) and an area in Rome where survivors of the destruction may have settled.
Many residents were born in the 124 BC. Founded city Fabrateria Nova , a few kilometers south of today's San Giovanni Incarico , relocated. When this place was destroyed by the Lombards in 580 AD , the residents founded what is now Falvaterra .
The remains of the Fregellae colony have been excavated since 1978 under the direction of Filippo Coarelli . The excavation park is open to the public at Isoletta, a district of Arce . Individual finds and models can be seen in the Archaeological Museum in nearby Ceprano .
literature
- Gerhard Radke : Fregellae . In: Der kleine Pauly Vol. 2, 1967, Col. 611.
- Filippo Coarelli , Universita di Perugia, Fregellae , 1998, ISBN 978-88-7140-120-1
Web links
- Fregellae Archaeological Park (Italian)
- Archaeological Museum (Italian)
Coordinates: 41 ° 32 ′ 12 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 20 ″ E