Aracillum
Ancient city · Spain
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 43.030, -4.134
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Iberia
History
Aracillum was a fortified Cantabrian city, scene of the third of the great battles of the Cantabrian wars between the Roman Empire and Cantabrian indigenous tribes. It would be located in the territory of present-day Cantabria, with two possible locations: Aradillos, near Reinosa and the Roman city of Julióbriga; the second possible location would be the castro of the Galician Thorn, in the Mountains of the Shield. According to Roman historiography it belonged to the blendii.