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ΤΟΛΕΔΟ (Πόλη) ΚΑΣΤΙΛΗ-ΜΑΝΤΣΑ
Toletum (Toledo) Toledo, Spain.
Town in Carpetania, first mentioned in 193 B.C. as small but strongly fortified (Livy), but captured by M. Fulvius. His strategy was based on the Tagus and the plateau roads.
Roman villas with mosaics have been unearthed in the Vega (the Tagus
plain NW of the city). The most important monument is the circus (ca. 400 m x
95 m), with some foundations, arches, passageways, the main arch, and a lateral
gate with external stairway like that of the theater of Pompeii. There were also
an amphitheater in the suburb of Covachuelas, a theater N of the circus, stretches
of an aqueduct with earthworks, channels, cleaning wells, and an arch. Inside
the town is the so-called cave of Hercules, an underground construction with semicircular
arches and large ashlar masonry, and the praetorium which occupied the highest
part towards the E. Besides the mosaics, the scanty finds consist of coins, including
some native ones, and Celtiberian and Roman pottery.
M. Pelliger Catalan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Jan 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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