{"slug": "cumae", "label": "Cumae", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumae", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q243456", "qid": "Q243456", "description": "ancient Roman city near Naples, Italy", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-549, 553], "span_label": ["550 BCE", "553 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "samnites", "label": "Samnites", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "etruscan-civilization", "label": "Etruscan civilization", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "umbria", "label": "Umbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "naples", "label": "Naples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "narses", "label": "Narses", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "capua", "label": "Capua", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samnium", "label": "Samnium", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -549, "year_label": "550 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Aristodemus of Cumae, tyrant of Cumae", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356470815#Births", "title": "550 BC", "revid": 1356470815, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -523, "year_label": "524 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cumae - An army of Umbrians, Daunians, Etruscans, and others is defeated by the Greeks of Cumae, present-day Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358121888#Southern_Italy", "title": "524 BC", "revid": 1358121888, "section": "Events › By place › Southern Italy"}}, {"year": -494, "year_label": "495 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Tarquinius Superbus, former king of Rome died in exile in Cumae", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129364#Deaths", "title": "495 BC", "revid": 1350129364, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -427, "year_label": "428 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Greek colony of Cumae in Italy falls to the Samnites, who begin to take control of the Campanian plain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1151725633#Italy", "title": "428 BC", "revid": 1151725633, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -420, "year_label": "421 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The city of Cumae, the most northerly of the Greek colonies in Italy, falls to the Samnites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172919#Italy", "title": "421 BC", "revid": 1354172919, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -341, "year_label": "342 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Mount Gaurus is fought between the Romans and the Samnites. The battle is a success for the Romans, who, it is said, are led by Marcus Valerius Corvus. Fought at the foot of Mount Gaurus, near Cumae, it is the most notable engagement of the First Samnite War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209992354#Roman_Republic", "title": "342 BC", "revid": 1209992354, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -339, "year_label": "340 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Romans succeed in detaching the Campanians from their alliance with the Latins (through their fear of the Samnites) and induce them to make a separate peace. Three Campanian cities, including Capua and Cumae, are granted Roman citizenship and thus become part of the Roman state. The Roman state now extends to the Bay of Naples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239354213#Roman_Republic", "title": "340 BC", "revid": 1239354213, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 553, "year_label": "553 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Mons Lactarius: King Teia secretly marches to join forces with his brother Aligern in Campania, to relieve the siege of Cumae. Meanwhile at Mons Lactarius (modern Monti Lattari), Narses lays an ambush. The combined Gothic force is crushed in a hopeless last stand for two days (south of Naples), and Teia is killed in the fighting. Aligern escapes, but surrenders a few months later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072897#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "553", "revid": 1267072897, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}