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BADALONA (Town) BARCELONA
Baetulo (Badalona) Barcelona, Spain.
Town on the coast of Laietania, 10 km NE of Barcelona, near the mouth of the Baetulo
(Besos) in Tarraconensis. The suffix -ilo, typically iberian, suggests that originally
it was a native oppidum, which has not been identified. it grew in the 1st c.
B.C. when several nearby iberian settlements were abandoned. According to Pliny
(HN 3.22) it was an oppidum enjoying Roman rights; it is also mentioned by P.
Mela (2.90) and Ptolemy (2.6.18). its prosperity in the 1st-3d c. was due to trade
in local wine. The town was reduced to ruins during the invasion of the Franks,
but was rebuilt and fortified by great walls, some sectors of which still survive.
Excavation has uncovered Roman houses with mosaics (now in the Barcelona
Archaeological Museum) and many inscriptions; the earliest (CIL II, 4606-4608),
include an important bronze tabula patronatus. The local archaeological museum,
in addition to Roman material, has finds from nearby prehistoric deposits and
iberian oppida, in particular the Mas Bosca.
J. Maluquer De Motes, 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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