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The ruins of the ancient city of Cosa in central Italy #220181546
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Cosa was a Latin colony founded in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, on land confiscated from the Etruscans, to solidify the control of the Romans and offer the Republic a protected port. The vast majority of religious monuments at Cosa were located at the Arx, `an area sacra, abode of those gods, quorum maxime in tutela civitas.` The Arx was positioned at the highest and southernmost point of the colony time of the foundation of the colony on 273 BCE.