Lucrine Lake

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Lucrine Lake is a small coastal lagoon near Pozzuoli in southern Italy, historically significant as part of the Roman naval base Portus Julius and later known for its oyster beds.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Lucrine Lake canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf coastal lagoon
geographical feature
lake
associatedWith Roman engineering works
Roman navy
connectedTo Avernus Lake
sea
country Italy
formedBy coastal processes
hasFeature low-lying shoreline
shallow waters
hasHistoricalSignificance Roman Empire
Roman Republic
hasItalianName Lago di Lucrino
hasLanguageName Italian
hasNotableProduct Lucrine oysters
historicalFunction center of Roman aquaculture
harbor for Roman fleet
isBrackish true
isCoastal true
knownFor oyster beds
shellfish farming
knownInAntiquityAs Lucrinus Lacus
locatedIn Campania
Italy
Pozzuoli
linked to: Puteoli

southern Italy
linked to: Southern Italy
locatedWestOf Naples
mentionedBy Pliny the Elder
Roman authors
near Agnano
Bay of Naples
linked to: Gulf of Naples

Lake Avernus
linked to: Avernus Lake

Monte Nuovo
Pozzuoli
linked to: Puteoli

Tyrrhenian Sea
partOf Bay of Pozzuoli coastal system
Phlegraean Fields
region Campania
timePeriodOfMajorUse 1st century BCE
1st century CE
usedAs Roman naval base component
usedFor aquaculture
fishing
wasPartOf Portus Julius
waterBodyType lagoon

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Portus Julius connectedTo Lucrine Lake
subject linked to: Portus Julius naval base
Monte Nuovo locatedNear Lucrine Lake
Avernus Lake connectedTo Lucrine Lake