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Belunum

Βελοῦνον

Belunum or BELLUNUM (Βελοῦνον), a considerable town in the interior of Venetia, still called Belluno. It was situated in the upper valley of the Plavis (Piave), about 20 miles NE. of Feltria, and almost on the borders of Rhaetia. It was probably in ancient as well as modern times the capital of the surrounding district. (Plin. Nat. 3.19. s. 23; Ptol. 3.1.30; P. Diac. 6.26; Orell. Inscr. 69.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.