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ID: 1041930
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1041930
Record Type:
administrative
Amfissa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 31 30 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.5250
decimal degrees
Long: 022 22 23 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.3731
decimal degrees
Note:
At foot of Mount Parnassus; thrived as ancient city of central Greece; Amphissa attempted to rebuild ruined town of Crisa on plain sacred to Apollo, causing Fourth Sacred War in 340 BC; destroyed by Philip II of Macedon 339 BC.
Names:
Amfissa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Amphissa
(
C
,
V
)
Ámfissa
(
C
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Sálona
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Central Greece
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Phocis
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Amfissa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important ancient center
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Amfissa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
12
Ámfissa..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-6
Amphissa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 30
Sálona..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 30
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 30
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-813822
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-6
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
12
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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