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ID: 7004098
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004098
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Manduria (inhabited place)  Manduria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 017 38 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 17.6333  decimal degrees

Note: Site of a well that was probably a pagan sanctuary & was named by Pliny the Elder; Archidamus II, King of Sparta, defeated here 338 BC; town allied itself with Hannibal, but was sacked by Romans 209 BC; site of Imperiali & Giannuzzi Palaces.

Names:
Manduria (preferred,C,V)
Mandura (C,V)

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 Taranto (province)  ................  Taranto (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Manduria (inhabited place)  ....................  Manduria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in ancient times as stronghold of the Messapi people against Greek city of Tarentum
town (C)
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Mandura..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Manduria..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 562
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 768
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  TCI: Puglia (1978) 350
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 121
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 562
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 768
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120907
..................  TCI: Puglia (1978) 350
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 121
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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