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Taormina (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 37 51 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 37.8500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 015 17 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 15.2833 decimal degrees |
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Elevation: |
| 669.291 feet |
204.0000 meters |
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Note: Located at THE foot of Mount Etna; inhabited by the Siculi before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BCE; rebuilt by Romans in 2nd cen. BCE; was burned by Arabs in 902 CE; went to Normans in 1078. |
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| Taormina (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Taormina (Italian-P,U,N)
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| Taurmina (C,V,Sicilian,U)
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| Mu'izzīyah (C,V)
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............ | Arabic name |
| Tauromenium (H,V,Latin,U,N)
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| Tauromenion (H,V,Greek (transliterated),U,N)
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............ | ancient |
| Ταυρομένιον (H,V,Greek,U)
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Sicily (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861 |
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Taormina (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled by 8th cen. BCE |
| town (C) |
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| resort center (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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