Lavinium
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.653, 12.473
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Лавиний или Лавиниум — древний город в Лации.
History
Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 6 km (3.7 mi) to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the Silva Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost edge of the Pontine Marshes, a vast malarial tract of wetlands. The basis for the port, the only one between Ostia and Antium, was evidently the mouth of the Numicus river.