Cumae

Cumae was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from in the 8th century BCE. It became a rich Roman city, the remains of which lie near the modern village of Cuma, a frazione of the comune and in the Metropolitan City of Naples, , Italy.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: ancient Roman city near Naples, Italy
  • Also known as: “Mint of Cumae”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cumae amphitheatre and Lake Avernus.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Lake
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is a volcanic crater lake located in the Avernus crater in the region of southern Italy, around 4 kilometres west of . It is near the volcanic field known as the and comprises part of the wider Campanian volcanic arc.

Cave
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The is an ancient Roman tunnel nearly a kilometre in length connecting Lake Avernus with and dating from 38-36 BC. It was burrowed through the tuff stone of Monte Grillo by the architect Lucius Cocceius Auctus at the command of Agrippa who was in the process of converting the Lake into a military port, the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baiae and Torregaveta.

Suburb
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was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the and now in the comune of . It was a resort for centuries in antiquity, particularly towards the end of the Roman Republic, when it was reckoned as superior to , , and by wealthy Romans, who built villas here from 100 BC. is situated 2½ km southeast of Cumae.

Village
is a frazione of the comune of , in the metropolitan city of Naples, in . It has approximately one thousand inhabitants. is situated 3 km south of Cumae.

Suburb
is a land in the which takes its name from Lago di , a lake which formerly occupied part of the area. The current population of ranges between 4000 and 5000. is situated 4 km north of Cumae.

Cumae

Latitude
40.83805° or 40° 50′ 17″ north
Longitude
14.05598° or 14° 3′ 22″ east
Open location code
8FGPR3Q4+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4212162776
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q243456
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Cumae” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኩሜ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κύμη”
  • Arabic: “كومة”
  • Asturian: “Cumae”
  • Basque: “Kumas”
  • Belarusian: “Кумы”
  • Bulgarian: “Куме”
  • Catalan: “Cumae”
  • Catalan: “Cumes”
  • Chinese: “库迈”
  • Chinese: “庫邁”
  • Czech: “Cumae”
  • Czech: “Kumy”
  • Danish: “Cumae”
  • Dutch: “Cumae”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوماى”
  • Esperanto: “Kumo”
  • Estonian: “Cuma”
  • Estonian: “Cumae”
  • Estonian: “Kyme”
  • Finnish: “Cuma”
  • Finnish: “Cumae”
  • French: “Cumes”
  • French: “Paleopolis”
  • French: “Paléopolis”
  • Galician: “Cumas”
  • Georgian: “კუმე”
  • German: “Cumä”
  • German: “Cumae”
  • Greek: “Κύμη Καμπανίας”
  • Greek: “Κύμη”
  • Hebrew: “קומאי”
  • Hebrew: “קימה”
  • Hungarian: “Cumae”
  • Indonesian: “Cumae”
  • Indonesian: “Kumai”
  • Irish: “Cumae”
  • Italian: “Cuma”
  • Italian: “Cumae”
  • Italian: “Kymai”
  • Japanese: “クーマイ”
  • Japanese: “クーマエ”
  • Japanese: “クマエ”
  • Korean: “쿠마에”
  • Latin: “Cumae”
  • Latvian: “Kūmas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumai”
  • Lombard: “Cuma”
  • Neapolitan: “Cumma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumae”
  • Norwegian: “Kumae”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cuma”
  • Persian: “کومای”
  • Persian: “کومه”
  • Polish: “Cumae”
  • Polish: “Kume”
  • Polish: “Kyme”
  • Portuguese: “Cuma”
  • Portuguese: “Cumae”
  • Portuguese: “Cumas”
  • Romanian: “Cumae”
  • Russian: “Кумы”
  • Serbian: “Kuma”
  • Serbian: “Кума”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cumae”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuma”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kume”
  • Sicilian: “Cuma”
  • Slovak: “Kumy”
  • Slovak: “Kúmy”
  • Slovenian: “Cumae”
  • Slovenian: “Kume”
  • Spanish: “Cumas”
  • Swedish: “Cuma”
  • Swedish: “Cumae”
  • Swedish: “Kyme”
  • Tagalog: “Cumae”
  • Tagalog: “Cumas”
  • Turkish: “Cumae”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіми”
  • Ukrainian: “Куми”
  • Urdu: “کومئی”
  • Urdu: “کومہ”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիմի (Մեծ Յունաստան)”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիմի”

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