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Sentinum was a Roman town now located about a kilometre south of the present-day town of Sassoferrato in the Marche region of Italy.
Two areas of the town, the forum/urban baths and the suburban baths, can be visited today protected as an archaeological park.
The local museum contains many finds from Sentinum.
The location of the original settlement of Sentinum is unknown but it was probably of Umbrian origin. From 390 BC the Senone Gauls ousted the Umbrians living in this region (between Ariminum and Ancona) and settled there. Sentinum was advantageously located at the confluence of ancient roads that came from Umbria to reach the Adriatic.
The town is best known for the great and decisive Battle of Sentinum which took place nearby during the 3rd Samnite War in 295 BC: the Romans lost 8,700 men but defeated a coalition of Samnites and Senones. In 283 BC after a series of victories, the Romans expelled the Senones from the region after which it became Gallia Togata.
During the civil wars of the 40s BC Sentinum sided with Mark Antony but in 41 BC was taken and destroyed by Quintus Salvidienus Rufus who was leading troops of Octavian. The town was soon rebuilt with a Hippodamian orthogonal plan and Augustan walls in opus vittatum over Roman concrete. It flourished under the Empire as a municipium.
The considerable wealth of the ancient city is evident from the archaeological record, amongst which is the large number of mosaics found in public and private buildings both inside and outside the walls.
Civic life at Sentinum seems to have collapsed at the time of the invasion of Alaric I and not to have recovered.
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Sentinum
Sentinum was a Roman town now located about a kilometre south of the present-day town of Sassoferrato in the Marche region of Italy.
Two areas of the town, the forum/urban baths and the suburban baths, can be visited today protected as an archaeological park.
The local museum contains many finds from Sentinum.
The location of the original settlement of Sentinum is unknown but it was probably of Umbrian origin. From 390 BC the Senone Gauls ousted the Umbrians living in this region (between Ariminum and Ancona) and settled there. Sentinum was advantageously located at the confluence of ancient roads that came from Umbria to reach the Adriatic.
The town is best known for the great and decisive Battle of Sentinum which took place nearby during the 3rd Samnite War in 295 BC: the Romans lost 8,700 men but defeated a coalition of Samnites and Senones. In 283 BC after a series of victories, the Romans expelled the Senones from the region after which it became Gallia Togata.
During the civil wars of the 40s BC Sentinum sided with Mark Antony but in 41 BC was taken and destroyed by Quintus Salvidienus Rufus who was leading troops of Octavian. The town was soon rebuilt with a Hippodamian orthogonal plan and Augustan walls in opus vittatum over Roman concrete. It flourished under the Empire as a municipium.
The considerable wealth of the ancient city is evident from the archaeological record, amongst which is the large number of mosaics found in public and private buildings both inside and outside the walls.
Civic life at Sentinum seems to have collapsed at the time of the invasion of Alaric I and not to have recovered.
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