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ID: 7004119
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004119
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Manfredonia (inhabited place)  Manfredonia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 015 55 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by inhabitants of nearby abandoned town of Siponto 13th cen.; although destroyed by Turks 1620, castle of San Domenico remains; economy based on tourism & hydroelectric plants; site of a museum with treasures from ancient Siponto.

Names:
Manfredonia (preferred,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 Foggia (province)  ................  Foggia (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Manfredonia (inhabited place)  ....................  Manfredonia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1260 by Manfred, King of Sicily
town (C)
agricultural center (C)
archiepiscopal see (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Manfredonia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 771
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  TCI: Puglia (1978)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 119
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 771
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120911
..................  TCI: Puglia (1978)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 119
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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