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ID: 7003525
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003525

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sassari (inhabited place)  Sassari (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 43 38 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.7272  decimal degrees
Long: 008 33 37 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.5603  decimal degrees

Note: Settlement expanded as coastal peoples retreated inland during Saracen raids of 12th cen.; was important medieval center & capital of the "giudicato" (judiciary circuit division); went to Genoa in 1284, to Aragonese 1323, to Savoy 1718; bombed in WW II.

Names:
Sassari (preferred,C,V)
Jordi de Sassaro (H,V)
Tatari (H,V)
Tathari (H,V)  ............ name used in Middle Ages

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sardinia (region (administrative division))  ............  Sardinia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Sassari (province)  ................  Sassari (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Sassari (inhabited place)  ....................  Sassari (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in Middle Ages, though prehistoric & Roman settlements had been nearby
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)
archiepiscopal see (C)  ............  transferred here from Porto Torres in 1441
university center (C)  ............  founded in 1562
cultural center (C)  ............  noted for art & archaeological museums, including large collection of prehistoric artifacts from all over Sardegna

Sources and Contributors:
Jordi de Sassaro..........  [VP]
.............................  TCI: Sardegna (1984) 496
Sassari..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 834
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 464
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 177
Tatari..........  [VP]
.................  TCI: Sardegna (1984) 496
Tathari..........  [VP]
.................  TCI: Sardegna (1984) 496
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 834
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 464
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -129050
..................  TCI: Sardegna (1984) 496
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 177
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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