Forum Popili

FORUM POPILI (Forlimpopoli) Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

A Roman municipium 8 km SE of Forlì on the Via Aemilia between Caesena and Forum Livii. It was a diocesan seat at least from the 6th c. A.D.

Numerous private buildings with mosaics from various periods have been discovered, which conform to the plan of the modern town and confirm the regularity of the ancient city's plan, axial on the Via Aemilia. The necropolis of Melatello, to the NE of the city, probably belonged to a vicus. The territory shows three different orientations in the centuriation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aurigemma, “Forlimpopoli,” NSc (1940), p. 5PI; G. A. Mansuelli, Caesena, Forum Popili, Forum Livi (1948) 64-67MPI.

G. A. MANSUELLI