Suasa

:"For the butterfly genus, see "Suasa (butterfly).Suasa was an ancient Roman town in what is now the "comune" of Castelleone di Suasa, Marche, Italy. It is located in the Pian Volpello locality, in the valley of the Cesano River.

History

Suasa was founded by the Romans in the early 3rd century BC, after the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), in a territory inhabited by the Senones. The town was crossed by a secondary trait of the Via Flaminia and by the Via Salaria Gallica, which connected it to "Forum Sempronii" (Fossombrone) and Ostra. In 232 BC it became a prefecture and, in the first century BC, a "municipium".

Suasa started to decline from the 3rd century AD; in 409 it was run by Alarich's Goths during his march against Rome (see Sack of Rome). It was abandoned in the 6th century after the Gothic War, the population moving to nearby settlements.

The remains have been axcavated by the University of Bologna since 1987. The edifices found include:
*an amphitheater
*a theater
*the "Coiedii domus"
*a late-Republican era "domus"
*the "cardo maximum"
*a necropolis

ee also

*Suasa Archaeological Park

References

*cite book|first=Giuseppe (ed.)|last=Lepore|title=Santa Maria in Portuno nella valle del Cesano|publisher=Ante Quem|id=ISBN 88-7849-016-4
*cite book|last=Polverari |first=Alberto (ed.)|title=Castelleone di Suasa, 1 - Vicende storiche|publisher=Tecnostampa|year=1984