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Blanda (city)
39.9667° N, 15.8000° E
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Blanda (Greek: Βλάνδα), and later Blanda Julia, was an ancient city of Lucania now located at Palecastro di Tortora, Province of Cosenza, Italy. It was mentioned by Ptolemy among the inland towns of that province; but placed both by Pliny and Mela on or near the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The former writer includes it in Bruttium, but this seems to be a mistake: Livy, who mentions Blanda among the towns which had revolted to the Carthaginians, but were recovered by Fabius in 214 BCE, expressly calls it a Lucanian city. (Liv. xiv. 20; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10; Mel. ii. 4; Ptol. iii. 1. § 70.) The Tabula Peutingeriana also places it on the road along the coast of Lucania.
Historical Timeline
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Lucanian reoccupation and fortification
4th century BCE
Depopulation during Punic Wars
3rd century BCE
Conquest by Quintus Fabius Maximus
214 BCE
Roman colony establishment
1st century BCE
Elevation to municipium and adoption of Julia
1st century BCE
Earthquake and Roman rebuilding
c. 70 BCE
Oenotrian colonisation
mid-6th century BCE
Settlement abandonment
mid-5th century BCE
Destruction and abandonment
5th century CE
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