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ID: 7004093
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004093
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Otranto (inhabited place)  Otranto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 018 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Nation's easternmost town; retained Greek language until 11th cen.; was important trade center with Orient until razed by Turks in 1480; supply base during WW II; scene of Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto; connected by hydrofoil to Corfu.

Names:
Otranto (preferred,C,V)
Hydruntum (H,V)  ............ ancient
Hydrus (H,V)  ............ Greek

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Puglia (region (administrative division))  ............  Puglia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Lecce (province)  ................  Lecce (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Otranto (inhabited place)  ....................  Otranto (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originally the Greek settlement of Hydrus
town (C)
port (C)  ............  important since Roman times
archiepiscopal see (C)
communications center (C)  ............  with Greece since ancient times

Sources and Contributors:
Hydruntum..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
....................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12595
Hydrus..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 1043
Otranto..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 697-698
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 1043
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 697-698
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 1043
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12595
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -123592
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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