Colonia (Roman)

Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it

9 dated entries naming Colonia (Roman), drawn from 9 separate years between 752 BCE and 195 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century BC

752 BCE752 BC—Rome's first colonies were established.source

5th century BC

494 BCEThe Roman consul Aulus Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus defeats the Volsci, and a Roman colony is planted at Velitrae.source
492 BCEWar with the Volsci is averted because a pestilence affects the Volsci. Rome sends additional colonists to Velitrae and establishes a new colony in Norba.source

2nd century BC

183 BCERoman colonies are established at Mutina (later Modena), Pisa and Parma in northern and central Italy.source
171 BCEThe first Roman colony outside Italy is founded at Carteia in southern Hispania after Iberian-born descendants of Roman soldiers appear before the Roman Senate to request a town to live in and are given Carteia, which is named Colonia Libertinorum Carteia.source
138 BCEValencia in Spain is founded as a Roman colony.source

1st century BC

59 BCEThe colonia of Florentia, modern Florence, founded.source

1st century

49In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula founds a colonia for Roman veterans at Camulodunum (Colchester). Verulamium (St Albans) is probably established as a municipium the same year. A legion is stationed on the borders of the Silures of South Wales in preparation for invasion.source

2nd century

195The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies there.source