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ID: 7017133
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017133
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mégara (inhabited place)  Mégara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 023 20 44 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.3456  decimal degrees

Note: Probably was a sizable center by the Bronze Age; was chief center of eparchy of Megaris & important in period of Greek colonization, establishing cities at Megara Hyblaea, Selinus, Byzantium & Chalcedon; modern city is on the site of the ancient one.

Names:
Mégara (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Megara (C,V)
Μέγαρα (NA,V,Greek,U)
Megaris (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ellás (nation)  ........  Ellás (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Attikí (region (administrative division))  ............  Attikí (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Mégara (inhabited place)  ................  Mégara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in Bronze Age or earlier
city (C)
port (C)
Bronze Age (H)

Related geographic places:
historical connection ....  Megara Hyblaea .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Europe, Italia, Sicilia, Siracusa) [7010383]

Sources and Contributors:
Μέγαρα..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Mégara..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 584
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 125
Megara..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 565
Megaris..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 584
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -823540
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 565
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 125
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)

 

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