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Veliate
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Veliate is the map's clipped form of the Veleiates, a Ligurian people whom the Roman writer Pliny places in the hills near Placentia, modern Piacenza. Their small town, Veleia, lay about five hundred metres up in the Val Chero, far from any major road, which probably explains why the map names the people but leaves their town out. Pliny found the place remarkable for its old people: six residents declared an age of a hundred and ten, four of a hundred and twenty, and one Marcus Mucius Felix claimed a hundred and fifty. In 1747 a famous bronze tablet from Trajan's reign was found nearby.