The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Piacenza

Also known as Placentia

  • city
  • medieval Italian

The Emilian city Gibbon calls Placentia, a staging point on the Lombard plain. Crusading and imperial armies passed through it toward the Alpine roads.

Type
city
Style
medieval Italian
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 260
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The Emilian city Gibbon calls Placentia, a staging point on the Lombard plain. Crusading and imperial armies passed through it toward the Alpine roads.

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