Roman Hispania

Clunia

Today: Peñalba de Castro, Spain

Years
14–409
Role
Capital of the conventus Cluniensis

Quintus Sertorius held out here against Pompey for twenty years, and Pompey destroyed what town there was in 72 BCE. The Clunia a visitor walks was laid out afresh under Tiberius: first a municipium, with its own coin struck by its quattuorviri, and between Tiberius and Claudius the seat of a Legatus Iuridicus and head of the conventus Cluniensis. Galba was proclaimed emperor here, which is why some add his name to the city's.

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