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ID: 7006575
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006575
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Empoli (inhabited place)  Empoli (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 010 57 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on lower Arno river; was active in medieval Florentine wars; famed for Ghibelline congress of 1260, where destruction of defeated Florence was successfully opposed (referred to in Dante's Inferno); was heavily damaged in WW II, but rebuilt.

Names:
Empoli (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 Toscana (region (administrative division))  ............  Toscana (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Firenze (province)  ................  Firenze (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Empoli (inhabited place)  ....................  Empoli (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was important medieval center
town (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces glass, textiles & matches
cultural center (C)  ............  noted for museum of Tuscan art & 11th-cen. collegiate church; was birthplace of composer Ferruccio Busoni

Sources and Contributors:
Empoli..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 274
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 481
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  TCI: Toscana (1984)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 62
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 274
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 481
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -117030
..................  TCI: Toscana (1984)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 62
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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