Sardinia et Corsica

Rome's second province after Sicily, seized from Carthage in 238 BCE during the mercenary revolt that followed the First Punic War. Sardinia's interior mountains stayed lightly Romanized and malarial well into the imperial period — Cicero called exile here one of the harshest a Roman could draw.

1 place on the map

• Neapolis · Garum Factory

Sources

• Cicero, Pro Scauro
• Barrington Atlas