Cerveteri | |
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 Banditaccia Necropolis | |
Location of Cerveteri  | |
  Cerveteri Location of Cerveteri in Italy  Cerveteri Cerveteri (Lazio) | |
| Coordinates: 42°00′27″N 12°06′18″E / 42.00750°N 12.10500°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Lazio |
| Metropolitan city | Rome |
| Frazioni | Ceri, Due Casette, Furbara, Borgo San Martino, Sasso, Valcanneto, Casetta Mattei, Cerqueto, Quartaccio, Cerenova, Campo di Mare, I Terzi, San Paolo, Gricciano, Pian della Carlotta, Zambra |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Elena Gubetti |
| Area | |
• Total | 134.32 km2 (51.86 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 81 m (266 ft) |
| Population (30 November 2017)[2] | |
• Total | 37,983 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (730/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Official website |
| Official name | Cerveteri, Etruscan Necropolis of Banditaccia |
| Part of | Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia |
| Criteria | Cultural: (i)(iii)(iv) |
| Reference | 1158 |
| Inscription | 2004 (28th Session) |
| Area | 197.57 ha (488.2 acres) |
| Buffer zone | 1,824.04 ha (4,507.3 acres) |
Cerveteri (Italian: [tʃerˈvɛːteri]) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla (or Άγυλλα) by the Greeks, its modern name derives from Caere Vetus used in the 13th century to distinguish it from Caere Novum (the current town).
It is the site of the ancient Etruscan city[3] which was one of the most important Etruscan cities with an area more than 15 times larger than today's town. The best known structures on the site form the Banditaccia Necropolis.
Caere was one of the city-states of the Etruscan League and at its height, around 600 BC, its population was perhaps around 25,000 – 40,000 people.[4][5][6][7][8]
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Quilici, L.; S. Quilici Gigli, DARMC; J. Becker, R.; Talbert; T. Elliott; S. Gillies (19 April 2023). "Places: 422859 (Caere)". Pleiades. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ Pounds, N.J.G. (1976). An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521291262.
- ^ Museo nazionale di Villa Giulia; Moretti, A.M.S.; Italy. Soprintendenza archeologica per l'Etruria meridionale (2001). The Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum: Short Guide. L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISBN 9788882650124. Archived from the original on 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ Jean MacIntosh Turfa (26 June 2013). The Etruscan World. Routledge. pp. 1774–. ISBN 978-1-134-05530-2.
- ^ Normal J. G. Pounds (16 December 1976). An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330. CUP Archive. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-521-29126-2.
- ^ John Morris Roberts (1993). A Short History of the World. Oxford University Press. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-0-19-511504-8. Archived from the original on 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2016-03-23.