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ID: 7004135
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004135
Record Type:
administrative
Oria (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 017 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 17.6333
decimal degrees
Elevation:
272.309
feet
83.0000
meters
Note:
One of the most important Messapic cities according to Herodotos; besieged & taken by Hannibal; conquered by Goths, Byzantines, Lombards (569 CE), & by Ludovico II (867); noted for burial chambers & Greek ceramic ware.
Names:
Oria
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hyria
(
H
,
V
)
Uria
(
H
,
V
)
Orra
(
H
,
V
)
Ὑρία
(
C
,
V
,
Greek
,
U
)
Οὐρία
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Puglia
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Brindisi
(province) (
P
)
....................
Oria
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by colonists from Crete on the site of an ancient Messapian city
town (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ὑρία..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Οὐρία..........
[
VP
]
..............
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Hyria..........
[
VP
]
..............
TCI: Puglia (1978)
342
Oria..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Annuario Generale (1980)
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
948
...........
TCI: Puglia (1978)
342
...........
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
143
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Orra..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Uria..........
[
VP
]
...........
TCI: Puglia (1978)
342
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-123398
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
948
..................
TCI: Puglia (1978)
342
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
143
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
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