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Capidava
Capidava: Roman fort and fleet station on the right-bank Danube at Topalu, Constanța County, Romania, built under Trajan by legions V Macedonica and XI Claudia, occupied from the 2nd to the 11th century, excavated since 1924.
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom is a World Heritage Site in northeast China with three capital cities and 40 tombs, inscribed in 2004.
Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef National Park, a Utah national park since 1971 (monument 1937), protects the 100-mile Waterpocket Fold monocline, Fremont petroglyphs, and the historic Fruita orchards; a Gold-tier Dark Sky Park with record 1.4 million 2024 visits.
Capitoline Hill
Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio, Mons Capitolinus), smallest of Rome's hills, seat of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus and the Capitoline Triad, with Bronze Age settlement remains, Michelangelo's piazza, and the Capitoline Museums, the world's oldest public museum.
Capitolium at Mactaris
Capitolium at Mactaris: Roman temple of the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva) at Mactaris, modern Makthar, Tunisia, built by a non-citizen civitas of Latin right, part of the North African cluster of second- to third-century Capitolia.
Capitolium of Brixia
Capitolium of Brixia (Tempio Capitolino), Roman temple in Brescia, Italy, built 73 CE by Vespasian for Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva over a Republican sanctuary; UNESCO site since 2011, home of the Winged Victory.
Capitolium of Cosa
Capitolium of Cosa: large triple-cella temple (23.2 x 31.7 m, 175-150 BCE) on the Arx of the Roman colony of Cosa, Ansedonia, Tuscany. Long called a temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva; that identification is now disputed.
Capitolium Vetus
Capitolium Vetus, the Old Capitol, was an ancient Quirinal Hill shrine in Rome to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, older per Varro than the Capitoline temple; no remains survive, and its site near via Quattro Fontane is inferred from texts.
Capo di Bove
Capo di Bove, archaeological complex on the Via Appia Antica, Rome, at the fourth mile near the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella; mid-2nd-century AD baths probably of Herodes Atticus and Annia Regilla, acquired by the state in 2002, housing the Cederna Archive.
Capo Graziano
Capo Graziano, Filicudi promontory in the Aeolian Islands and type site of the Capo Graziano Bronze Age culture (2300–1430 BC), with the Montagnola village, Mycenaean contacts, and nearby ancient shipwrecks.
Capodifiume
Capodifiume, also Capo di Fiume, is a stream and fourth-century BC sanctuary site at springs (Caput aquae) 6 km northeast of Paestum, Campania; excavated 1980–1981 by the University of Salerno, with a proposed cult of Persephone.
Cappellette
Cappellette (Le Cappellette): Italian toponym for small chapels; chiefly the Roman villa between Frascati and Monte Porzio Catone linked to Matidia Augusta, and the Via Prenestina funerary complex with its late Roman mausoleum.
Cappuck
Cappuck, Roman fort or fortlet on Dere Street at the Oxnam Water crossing, Scottish Borders; Agricolan origin, four Flavian and Antonine occupation phases, probable 3rd-century activity, excavated 1886, 1911, 1949, scheduled SM1708.
Capraria
Capraria, a Latin toponym from capra (goat), names several ancient places: the Tuscan island of Capraia (Greek Aigylion), the Balearic La Cabrera, and an unlocated Numidian station on the Tabula Peutingeriana.
Caprasia
Caprasia: a Roman road station on the Via Popillia in Bruttium, southern Italy, 28 miles from Consentia, recorded in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana; usually located at Tarsia, Calabria, though unconfirmed archaeologically. Distinct from Pliny's Ostium Caprasiae, a Po river mouth.
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, formerly Peckerwood Hill, is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison cemetery in Huntsville, the largest in the United States, holding over 3,300 unclaimed inmates buried since the 1850s.
Caput Bubali
Caput Bubali, Latin for "ox's head", was a Roman road station and small fort recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Azizis and Tibiscum, identified with a fortlet near Cornuțel in Romania, dated to 101 to 117.
Caput Stenarum
Caput Stenarum (Stenarum on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman auxiliary fort and road station in Dacia at Boița, Sibiu County, Romania, on the Olt at the Turnu Roșu defile, garrisoned by legio XIII Gemina and Cohors I Flavia Commagenorum.
Caput Tyrsi
Caput Tyrsi (Caput Thyrsi), a Roman-era road station at modern Buddusò, Sardinia, near the source of the Thyrsos river; listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Barrington Atlas 48 B2, distinct from the Black Sea station Trissa/Tirizis.
Caracol Punta Sur
Caracol Punta Sur (El Caracol, Tumba del Caracol), a Late Postclassic Maya zone (1200-1500 AD) at southern Cozumel, Quintana Roo; shell-crowned temple, maritime marker, distinct from Caracol, Belize.
Carae/Caraca
Caraca (Carae), Roman city at Cerro de la Virgen de la Muela, Driebes, Guadalajara, Spain; former Carpetani oppidum on the Tagus, cited by Ptolemy, confirmed by georadar in 2016, with 8 ha, forum, aqueduct, and a large 1st-century ustrinum.
Caramelka
Caramelka (Карамелька) is a chain of children's entertainment centers in Minsk, Belarus, founded by Natalia Popko, with indoor play mazes, trampolines, and arcade attractions across city shopping malls.
Cărani
Cărani (Carani, Mercydorf, Mercyfalva) is a village in Sânandrei commune, Timiș County, Banat, Romania, founded in 1735 by Italian Habsburg colonists, with Count Mercy's Castle (1733–34) and Neolithic to medieval archaeological sites.
Carantomagus
Carantomagus (Carantomago), a Gallo-Roman road station of the Ruteni in Aquitania on the Peutinger Table between Cahors and Rodez; uncertainly identified with Le Cranton/Compolibat or Villefranche-d'Aveyron, Aveyron, France.
Carasa
Carasa is the name of several places, most prominently a village in Corlăteni commune, Botoșani County, Romania, and one of the thirteen villages of Voto municipality in Cantabria, Spain.
Carassura
Carassura (Karasura), a Roman mutatio road station in Thrace near Rupkite, Bulgaria, first named in the Itinerarium Burdigalense (333/34); later a double fortress with basilicas, destroyed in the 6th century, possibly Alexiopolis.
Carbon-Blanc (Cm. Flandres)
Carbon-Blanc (Cm. Flandres) is a Barrington Atlas ancient place in Gironde, France: the Gallo-Roman villa des Flandres with small late-Antique baths (~225 m²) rediscovered in 2014, on the territory of the 1853 commune of Carbon-Blanc, Bordeaux Métropole.
Careiae
Careiae (Careia, Careias), a Roman road station (mansio) on the Via Clodia in southern Etruria near the Arrone river, identified with Galera/Santa Maria di Galeria, 15 Roman miles from Rome, attested by Frontinus, itineraries, and inscriptions.
Carew Castle
Carew Castle is a Grade I listed medieval castle ruin in Pembrokeshire, Wales, founded c. 1100 by Gerald of Windsor, rebuilt by the de Carews, remodelled by Rhys ap Thomas and Sir John Perrot, now run with Wales's only restored tidal mill.
Carleith
Carleith is a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, recorded by Robert Sibbald in 1707 and rediscovered in 2022 by HES gradiometry survey, housing 10-12 soldiers from about 142 to 162 CE.