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ID: 7004133
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004133
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mottola (inhabited place)  Mottola (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 38 07 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.6353  decimal degrees
Long: 017 02 07 E  degrees minutes   Long: 17.0353  decimal degrees

Note: Located 16 miles NW of Taranto city; seat of an Apulian settlement, with ruins of megalithic walls; legend says that the Roman consul Curius Dentatus defeated Pyrrhus here in 274 BC; noted for 13th-cen. cathedral.

Names:
Mottola (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 Taranto (province)  ................  Taranto (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Mottola (inhabited place)  ....................  Mottola (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  inhabited since prehistoric times
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Mottola..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  TCI: Puglia (1978) 277
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 130
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 795
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -122779
..................  TCI: Puglia (1978) 277
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 130
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 795
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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