Evidence from Venetia illustrates the circulation of Mithraic cults through prosperous urban centres and regional exchange networks extending across northeastern Italy. The province occupied a strategic position between the Italian Peninsula and the frontier regions of the Roman empire.
People attested in Venetia
Places in Venetia
Aquileia
Aquileia, now a small municipality in north-eastern Italy, was one of the largest cities in the world in the 2nd century AD, with a population of 100,000.
Bergomum
Bergamo is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately 40 km northeast of Milan, and about 30 km from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km from Garda and Maggiore.
Emona
Emona or Aemona was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Nauportus River came closest to Castle Hill, serving the trade between the city’s settlers – colonists from the northern part of Roman Italy – and the rest of the empire.
Villa Vicentina
Villa Vicentina is associated with archaeological material from the Roman territory of Venetia.
