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Alba Fucens

303 BCE · 4th century BCE

Alba Fucens was a Roman colony in the central Apennines of Italy, founded in 303 BCE on land taken from the Aequi near the Fucine Lake. Settled with 6,000 colonists, it held a strategic position on the later Via Valeria. Rome used it to hold captive kings, among them Perseus of Macedon, who died there. Its excavated ruins lie near Massa d'Albe.

Alba Fucens
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