Cālātia was an ancient town of Campania, southern Italy, c. 10 km southeast of Capua, on the Via Appia, near the point where the Via Popillia branches off from it.

[1] Ruins include remains of the walls (with sector from the Samnite age, in tuff, and others from the Sulla period)[citation needed] and the pre-Roman necropolis was partially excavated in 1882.

The ten shafts lined with slabs of tuff which may have been the approaches to tombs or may have served as wells.

[1] The history of Calatia is similar to that of its more powerful neighbor Capua, but as it lay near the point where the Via Appia turns east and enters the mountains, it had some strategic importance.

In 313 BC it was taken by the Samnites and recaptured by the dictator Fabius Maximus Rullianus; the Samnites captured it again in 311 BC, but it must have been retaken at an unknown date.