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  • Spain, Alcúdia
  • geo:39.849262,3.121878

Period or year

  • -123 / 465

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  • city
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Pollentia

data access 11242

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/oldsite/PollentiaNet/PollentiaNet.html

Pollentia (die Mächtige) war der römische Hauptort auf Mallorca (erst die Mauren verlegten das Zentrum nach Palma). Bedeutend waren die beiden Häfen: Der große Hafen in der Bucht von Alcudia und der kleine Hafen in der Bucht von Pollensa.
 

The Roman city of Pollentia was founded on the north-eastern coast of Mallorca (Balearic archipelago) after the Roman conquest of the island in 123 BC according to Strabo (3.5.1), it was founded by Caecilius Metellus Balearicus with 3000 Roman colonists.

See:

  1. Strabo, Geography Book III Chapter 5
  2. Richard Stillwell,et all. : sv. POLLENTIA (Alcudia de Pollensa) Majorca, Spain., The  Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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Creators: Entry created by Randal Gilbert (2012-12-18) , last updated by Elżbieta (2021-07-25), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11242
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Suggested citation: Gilbert, R. and Elżbieta, Pollentia. https://vici.org/vici/11242, accessed 2026-11-14.