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ID: 7003864
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003864
Record Type:
administrative
Gravina in Puglia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 016 25 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Was ancient Roman center; formerly was thought to be ancient Greek Sidion; is noted for castle of Orsini family; a distinctive breed of horse is associated with area.
Names:
Gravina in Puglia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Gravina di Puglia
(
C
,
V
)
Silitum
(
H
,
V
)
Silutum
(
H
,
V
)
Silvium
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Apulia
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bari
(province) (
P
)
....................
Gravina in Puglia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
graves here date to 7th cen. BC; town was documented by 4th cen. BC
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for cereal crops
quarrying center (
C
)
............
for limestone
Sources and Contributors:
Gravina di Puglia..........
[
VP
]
................................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
75
Gravina in Puglia..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
................................
Annuario Generale (1980)
................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
................................
TCI: Puglia (1978)
264
Silitum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
840
Silutum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
840
Silvium..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 347
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 347
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-118849
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
840
..................
TCI: Puglia (1978)
264
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
75
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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