Luna, known today as Luni, was a Roman settlement founded in 177 BC in what is now the province of La Spezia in eastern Liguria, Italy, near the border with Tuscany. Sited on a plain crossed by the Magra River close to the Tyrrhenian Sea, it served as a military stronghold and grew into a major port exporting the white marble quarried nearby that Romans called Luna marble. Repeated raids, including by Saracens in 849 and Vikings in 860, along with malaria and the silting of its harbor, drove its decline, and by the 11th century its population had relocated to nearby Sarzana. Petrarch later described the ruined city as once famous and powerful and by then only a bare and useless name.
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Founding Year Founding Year Elevation (m) Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikipedia (Italian): Luni
Wikipedia (Italian)Article text: founding statementQuote, Article text: founding statement
La storia del territorio lunense è legata indubbiamente alla celebre città di Luna, colonia romana fondata nel 177 a.C.
2. Luna (Etruria) (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 44.064, longitude 10.017
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 20 m
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 44.25, 10.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 44.25, 10.25
44.25 10.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Luni Mare - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 6697611, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.25 km)Quote, cities500 record 6697611, nearest place to the city coordinates (1.25 km)
44.05919 10.00288 P PPL IT 08 SP 011020 909 6 3 Europe/Rome
Luna (Etruria) (Wikipedia)
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