Alba Longa
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- 672 BC
- Founded
- 1200 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.747, 12.650
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Италии
History
Alba Longa was an ancient Latin city in Central Italy in the vicinity of Lake Albano in the Alban Hills. The ancient Romans believed it to be the founder and head of the Latin League, before it was destroyed by the Roman Kingdom around the middle of the 7th century BC and its inhabitants were forced to settle in Rome. In legend, Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, had come from the royal dynasty of Alba Longa, which in Virgil's Aeneid had been the bloodline of Aeneas, a son of Venus.