Talk:Pollentia

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The Catholic Encyclopedia and a Dartmouth webpage have this city on an island. However, the 2004 EB version gives the same location has the 1911 version on which this article is based. There is a city named Pollenca/Pollensa on the island, perhaps it is a mixup. -- Kjkolb 08:22, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes there do seem to be (at least) two towns which the Romans called Pollentia: the one covered by this article, where the battle was fought, and another on the island of Mallorca now known as Alcúdia (that article doesn’t mention the fact, but the one in Spanish does [[1]], as does the English Mallorca). Ian Spackman 03:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am a bit puzzled by the refs to amphitheatres, temples, etc. The Blue Guide to Northern Italy fails to mention them, as does the Italian wikipedia article Pollentia and the Italian wikipedia article Bra (not a disambiguation page in Italian). The page on Pollentia at the official Bra site [2] seems to say that although there were indeed temples, aquaducts, etc., all you can see today—and preferably from the air—is the shape of the amphitheatre as outlined by more recent buildings. I have made the article a bit vague on this. Ian Spackman 03:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]