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Cosa

Latin colony founded ca. 273 BCE
Place Archaeological Site Q546547

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
archaeological site, ancient city, Roman colony, Roman city, Samian Ware Discovery Site[4][5][6][7]
Official website
www.archeotoscana.beniculturali.it, museitoscana.cultura.gov.it[18][19]

Location

Country
Italy[3]
Location
Ansedonia[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 42.411°, 11.286°, 🗺️ 42.411°, 11.286°, 🗺️ 42.411°, 11.287°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Orbetello[2]
More facts +6
Part of
Samian Research[9]
Culture
Ancient Rome[23]
Described by source
Pauly–Wissowa, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20][21]
Different from
Cosa[22]
Director of archaeological fieldwork
Frank Edward Brown, Lawrence Richardson, Jr., Elizabeth Fentress, Russell T. Scott Jr.[24][25][26][27]
Has part(s)
House of the Skeleton at Cosa, Forum of Cosa, Temple of Jupiter, Comitium of Cosa, Basilica of Cosa, city wall of Cosa, Liber Pater shrine at Cosa, thermae[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cosa en Cosae (poetic) en Cosa (Samian Ware Discovery Site) en Mint of Cosa es Portus Cosanus es Succosa fr colonie romaine de Cosa he קוסה ja コサ
🔖 Identifiers · 30
VIAF cluster ID
138.0M (138.0M–19144647641.1B, n=4)
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85033135
GND ID
4085342-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cosa10.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119359721, 121375698
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
21588
Epigraphic Database Heidelberg ID
G007219
Exact match
data.archaeology.link
FAST ID
1896856, 1241136
Freebase ID
/m/053vwn
GNS Unique Feature ID
-116394
GeoNames ID
3177932
Show all 30 identifiers +18
Grove Art Online ID
T019697
IdRef ID
027284301
J9U entity ID
987007567593505171
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
339133
Museum-digital place ID
11938
Münzkabinett ID
location/1567
Nomisma ID
cosa
OpenStreetMap node ID
4832768337
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
1895
Pleiades ID
413107
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID
cosa
ToposText place ID
424113UCos
Treccani ID
cosa_res-70c5ba7d-962b-11de-baff-0016357eee51
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
cosa, cosa_res-998d9c81-8bad-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
Trismegistos Geo ID
32049
Vatican Library VcBA ID
497/226
Vici.org ID
2687
Yale LUX ID
place/65961066-201d-46df-bfe5-81cfe1634324
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Credit
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 3
archaeological site, Roman colony, Roman city
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa
Country 1
Italy
Culture 1
Ancient Rome
Director of archaeological fieldwork 1
Lawrence Richardson, Jr.
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Orbetello
Location 1
Ansedonia
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Summary

Cosa is an archaeological site[1].

Related Entities

Italy Orbetello

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Nomisma. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Samian Research. wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . osf.io. osf.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25w ago · Torquatus · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → House of the Skeleton at Cosa, Forum of Cosa, Temple of Jupiter +2
    Product or material produced → —
    "Created claim: Has part(s): thermae"
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